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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
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Speaking in numbers : the effect of reading performance on math performance among immigrants
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384332
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The words that keep people apart : official language, accountability and fiscal capacity
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Foresta, Alessandra; Ricciuti, … - 2020
approach using, as an instrument, the measurement of how far, on average, official language differs from ordinary language. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249272
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Somatic distance, cultural affinities, trust and trade
Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2018
Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …
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He, she, they? : the impact of gendered language on economic behavior
Gorny, Paul Matthias; Nieken, Petra; Ströhlein, Karoline - 2023
We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic behavior. In our experiment, we systematically varied the framing of the instructions, either using the male, the female, or a gender-inclusive form. Participants played three...
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Weber's law and the biological evolution of risk preferences : the selective dominance of the logarithmic utility function
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
The paper offers a proof that expected utility maximisation with logarithmic utility is a dominant preference in the biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will, with a probability that approaches certainty,...
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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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Some evolutionary foundations for price level rigidity
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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Gravity at sixty : the workhorse model of trade
Yotov, Yoto - 2022
usefulness for counterfactual projections. The objective of this paper is to offer a historical overview of its evolution from an …
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