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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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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …
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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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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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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009
; incomplete contracts ; evolutionary game theory ; culture ; trade integration ; factor mobility ; globalization …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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