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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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Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints - Evidence from Froebel's Kindergarten Movement
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2014
We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel’s birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to...
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A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017
We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...
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Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis
Giorcelli, Michela; Lacetera, Nicola; Marinoni, Astrid - 2019
We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million … relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth – science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018190
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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture
Spiro, Daniel - 2019
people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … being close to their own preferences and influencing their children, and where parents take into account that the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018198
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Individual attitudes towards immigration in aging populations
Comertpay, Rana; Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2019
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018256
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Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018
This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views). Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932044
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264316
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264348