interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …

-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 … substantial influence on the extent of cooperation, in addition to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences identified …

This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee …

We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population … of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are … positively correlated with wealth: moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the financial wealth distribution increases the …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

the effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer … RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … partial equilibrium model to estimate the effect of the RFS on the price of selected food commodities - rice, wheat, corn …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

. First, we use a model with endogenous land use to estimate the effect of the biofuel policy on the world price of selected … techniques that generate standard errors on these price predictions. The effect of these price increases on household welfare is … then estimated using data on consumption and wage incomes. We estimate pass-through elasticities from time-series data then …