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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
appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024584
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079240
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455548
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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments
Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower … the digital renewal process makes use of information technologies as part of the renewal process. The second experiment …-it-takes to renew an identification card. We find that information technologies significantly improve the quality of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744659
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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
society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646310
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632789
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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703043
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The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216760
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International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790510