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The scope of cooperation: values and incentives

Tabellini, Guido - 2008

What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their offspring, and...

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity

Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009

Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...

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Culture and cooperation

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …

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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010

Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or Science? – Lessons from Ordoliberalism

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source...

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Lab in the Field: Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - 2016

In this chapter, we discuss the “lab-in-the-field” methodology, which combines elements of both lab and field … begin by examining how the methodology has been used to test economic models with populations of theoretical interest. Next … covariates to test theoretical predictions and explore behavioral mechanisms. We proceed to discuss how the methodology can be …

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On Credibility and Causality in Economics: A Critical Appraisal

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2024

Establishing causal relationships is a core aspect of empirical economics. Borrowing ideas from the medical sciences, we propose tentative guidelines for reliable causal inferences that cover aspects related to both the study itself and its fit with the existing background knowledge. We argue...

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Too many migrants, too few services : a model of decision-making on immigration and integration with cultural distance

Verbon, Harrie A. A.; Meijdam, Lex - 2004

unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different … from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether to integrate into the native culture. If they don?t, they produce …

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