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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

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Religion and Innovation

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

moderation. We also find changes in values across countries to be of much larger magnitude than the ones dictated by income …

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Top‐Down vs. Bottom‐Up: The Long‐Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies the long‐term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40‐year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately...

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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …

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The Power of the Family

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...

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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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