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König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? Evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social...

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Does culture cause economic development? A reassessment of the evidence from European regions

Edwards, Jeremy - 2012

This paper shows that Tabellini's recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic … to support any conclusions about the effect of culture on economic development. …

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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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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location

Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - 2014

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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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 …

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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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