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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Reactivity in economic science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

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Ancestry, language and culture

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2015

distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe …

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Migration and cultural change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...

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The causal effect of cultural identity on cooperation

Butler, Jeffrey; Fehr, Dietmar - 2021

The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal evidence of culture's influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting...

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Multigenerational transmission of culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

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How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality : causal evidence at the swiss language border

Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ markedly in the same environment. Put differently, cultural evolutionary processes can in principle stabilise behavioural differences between groups, which in turn could lead selection...

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Cultural remittances and modern fertility

Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - 2024

We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930, we find that higher immigration to France...

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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015

of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …

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