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Group identities make fragile tipping points

Ehret, Sönke; Constantino, Sara M.; Weber, Elke U.; … - 2022

Social tipping can accelerate beneficial changes in behaviour in diverse domains from equality and social justice to climate change. Hypothetically, however, group identities might undermine tipping in ways policy makers do not anticipate. To examine this, we implemented an experiment around the...

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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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Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents in Soviet-era Russia

Schief, Matthias; Vogt, Sonja; Churilova, Elena; … - 2023

This paper analyzes historical census data from the final Soviet census in 1989. We find that, even in the absence of sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than...

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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017 - This version: 18 February 2017

The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...

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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads

Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

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Droughts and malnutrition in Africa

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …

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