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According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...
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What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure,...
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Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...
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This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...
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We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark …
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We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched …
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We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a …
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population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative …
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disorder (BD). Individual-level registry data from Denmark show that these disorders carry large earnings penalties, ranging …
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implication that wealth should decline over time. The risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenditures is negligible in Denmark … explanations are not plausible for Denmark (and therefore also questionable for the U.S.). Our analysis instead attempts to explain …
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