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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …
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Praying for Rain
Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the climate as a determinant of religious belief. People believe in the divine when religious authorities (the "church") can credibly intervene in nature on their behalf. We present a model in which nature sets the pattern of rainfall over time and the church chooses when optimally to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322798
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Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship : The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints
Ardagna, Silvia - 2008
characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and status in …
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
' willingness to work with different coauthors. There are only small gender differences in the impacts of age on numbers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457728