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Fernández, Raquel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...

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Religion and Innovation

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

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …

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On the Economics and Biology of Trust

Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. … just a special case of risk-taking, but based on important forms of social preferences such as betrayal aversion …

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...

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Fixed Effects Bias in Panel Data Estimators

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Oguzoglu, Umut; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Since little is known about the degree of bias in estimated fixed effects in panel data models, we run Monte Carlo simulations on a range of different estimators. We find that Anderson-Hsiao IV, Kiviet’s bias-corrected LSDV and GMM estimators all perform well in both short and long panels....

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Deriving the New Quantity Equation: An Approach for a Closed and an Open Economy

Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...

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Superstition in the Housing Market

Fortin, Nicole M.; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in … average percentage of Chinese residents, consistent with cultural preferences, or in repeated transactions, consistent with …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

consistent with women responding to monetary incentive and/or having different preferences for maternal care. These heterogenous …

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Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is supported by numerous studies that show that SAHS is a better predictor of mortality and morbidity than medical records. The 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and...

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