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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects
Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761954
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Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008): Child Seats Are Still No Safer than Seat Belts
Jones, Lauren E.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using US fatality data from 1975 to 2003, Levitt (2008) shows that child safety seats do not significantly reduce fatalities for children aged two to six as compared to standard seat belts. Although we were unable to gain access to the original programs and dataset used, we were able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959725
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Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266181
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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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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959647
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015489
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294832
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
. This paper argues that family labor supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … shaped by national features. We also document that cross-country differences in family culture cause cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703676
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822814