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Miguel, Edward - 2008

Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2017

Cultural psychologists and anthropologists argue that societies have developed heterogeneous systems of social organization to cope with social dilemmas, and that an entire bundle of psychological and biological characteristics has coevolved to enforce cooperation within these different regimes....

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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

Figlio, David - 2016

We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

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Culture and the Historical Process

Nunn, Nathan - 2012

This article discusses the importance of accounting for cultural values and beliefs when studying the process of historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described. Because cultural traits evolve based upon relative...

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Why Does Working from Home Vary Across Countries and People?

Zarate, Pablo; Dolls, Mathias; Davis, Steven J.; Bloom, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use two surveys to assess why work from home (WFH) varies so much across countries and people. A measure of cultural individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score highly on individualism and WFH rates,...

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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...

Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009

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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation

Levine, Ross - 2005

"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

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