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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 …
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culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …
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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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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 the view that culture is one aspect of an individual's multi …
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We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
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Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
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Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict is about control of public goods, more heterogeneous groups are expected to fight more with each other. In contrast, when conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are...
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cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a … cooperation ; punishment ; culture ; experimental public good games …
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the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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