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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen subject pools from six different world cultures (as classified by … cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020583
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Spatial Exporters
Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2021
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
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Stress and Coping - An Economic Approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2018
We present a psychological model of stress. Appraisal translates stressors into subjective stress. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via cognitive load. Coping can be under the control of the individual or more automatic. We predict the occurrence of uncontrolled...
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
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Institutional Transplant and Cultural Proximity : Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo - 2016
stronger ties to French culture exhibit a more effective transplant even when controlling for institutional proximity. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000827
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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - 2021
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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Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment
Campa, Pamela; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2021
This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms … gender culture based on firms’ attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …
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Optimal Contracting with Endogenous Project Mission
Cassar, Lea - 2017
I analyze a model in which a principal offers a contract to an agent and can influence the agent's marginal return of effort by the choice of the project mission. The principal's and the agents' mission preferences are misaligned, and the agents have unobservable intrinsic motivation levels. I...
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