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Sorenson, Olav - 2017

Social relationships channel information, influence, and access to scarce resources. As a consequence, social networks - the patterns of these relationships across the members of a community - influence who comes up with important innovations, whether and how rapidly those innovations get...

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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang

Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial …

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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Starbucks Cafés

Choi, Jinkyong; Guzman, Jorge; Small, Mario Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …

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Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution …

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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

Guiso, Luigi - 2004

instrumented with its cultural determinants. We conclude that perceptions rooted in culture are important (and generally omitted …

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Violence Against Women : A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2016

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors arising from pre-colonial customs and find evidence consistent with two hypotheses. First, ancient socioeconomic conditions determine social norms about gender roles, family...

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Striving for Balance in Economics : Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior

Hoff, Karla - 2015

This paper is an attempt to broaden the standard economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker is the rational actor in standard economics and, in early work in behavioral...

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The Evolution of Culture and Institutions : Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom

Lowes, Sara; Robinson, James Alan; Weigel, Jonathan; … - 2015

We use variation in historical state centralization to examine the impact of institutions on cultural norms. The Kuba Kingdom, established in Central Africa in the early 17th century by King Shyaam, had more developed state institutions than the other independent villages and chieftaincies in...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci H. - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact …

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