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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941764
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the … role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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Immigrants' "ability" and welfare as a function of cultural diversity : effect of cultural capital at individual and local level
Tubadji, Annie; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409050
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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2011
. -- endogenous preferences ; culture ; caste ; frames ; anchors ; elicitation devices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315466
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The evolution of citizenship : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
that a jus sanguinis origin is a factor of resistance to change, that a high degree of democracy promotes the adoption of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522985
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Can democracy educate a society?
Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Siemers, Lars (contributor) - 2005
We examine whether democratic societies can escape poverty traps. Unrestricted agenda setting with simple majority rules fail to educate a society, because education-enhancing redistribution will not occur. We show that a combination of suitable constitutional rules overcomes this impossibility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039641
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
benchmark, mutatis mutandis. In the end, full convergence is established, from a pure democracy ruled through the de jure power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461501
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518078
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Tracking when ranking matters
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170260