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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015

This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...

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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015

What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...

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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection

Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261231

Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

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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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Qualifying religion: the role of plural identities for educational production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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Workers without borders? Culture, migration and the political limits to globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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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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Pay as you go: A new proposal for museum pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - 2010

Museums have many different goals beyond efficiency such as social equity, financial revenue, attracting donors and gaining international, regional or local prestige. Various pricing schemes are being discussed with the aim of reaching these goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free...

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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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