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Giavazzi, Francesco - 2014

This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes....

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Culture and Institutions

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical,...

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Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world's technological frontier? In this paper, we seek to shed light on this question by quantifying the geographic and human barriers to the transmission of technologies. We argue that...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism : Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies

Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Moral universalism, the extent to which individuals exhibit similar altruism and trust towards in-group and out-group members, varies widely across societies. We test the hypothesis from anthropology that the requirements of transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally...

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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior

Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...

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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk

Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that … and the linkage between trade and risk: While, on average, individuals with higher levels of industry- or occupation … of industry-specific human capital can be costly for workers in highly trade-exposed industries. By contrast, we find no …

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Collective Reputation in Trade : Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry

Bai, Jie - 2019

noninspected firms. These findings highlight the importance of collective reputation in international trade and the challenges …

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Playing With Fire : Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition From the Internet

Goolsbee, Austan - 2009

This paper documents the rise of the Internet as a source of state-tax-free cigarettes and its impact on taxed sales elasticities. Using data on cigarette tax rates, taxable cigarette sales and individual smoking rates by state from 1980 to 2005 merged with data on Internet penetration, the...

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The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

Serrano, Carlos J. - 2008

This paper explores the dynamics of the transfer of U.S. patents and the significance of the initial missallocation of patent property rights. Here we find that the initial missallocation of patent property rights is large and differs substantially across patentees and technology fields. We also...

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