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Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

-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 …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Can integrity replace institutions? : theory and evidence

Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - 2009

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of …) trust, or (3) integrity, foster economic growth. We construct data of economic performance of social groups in Lebanon …

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Omnimetrics and awards

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

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Comfort and conformity : a culture-based theory of migration

Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views). Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally...

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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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Complementarities, coordination, and culture

Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016

We develop a new model of the intergenerational transmission of culture based on the labor market characteristics of different cultural types. Following Borjas (1994,1995) we assume that cultural heterogeneity increases labor productivity due to skill complementarities, however following Jackson...

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Nobel students beget nobel professors

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022

It is unclear whether the hierarchy in the economics profession is the result of the agglomeration of excellence or of nepotism. I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on...

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When the state mirrors the family : the design of pension systems

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2010

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....

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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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