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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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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

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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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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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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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also … constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate whether this social aspect of organizations has an important benefit … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …

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Field Experiments with Firms

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light...

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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness

Gerards, Ruud; de Grip, Andries; Witlox, Maaike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own employability. Using data from two surveys of the firm's workforce, we find that voucher use is related...

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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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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'...

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