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Economic production and the spread of supernatural beliefs

Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021

Religion and beliefs in the supernatural are present in all societies. Yet, studies about the spread of small-scale supernatural belief systems remain quite limited. In this work, we test the anthropological hypothesis that historical dependence on pastoralism favored the adoption of customs...

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The ties that bind us: social networks and productivity in the factory

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020

caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual … when the production line has a more homogeneous caste composition. Production externalities that impose financial costs due …

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Millet, rice, and isolation : origins and persistence of the world’s most enduring mega-state

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2022

We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements : a theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Geographical roots of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018

This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

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The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from Australia's convict history

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024

This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Mortgage finance and culture

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018

of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …

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Stigma in welfare programs

Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2022

Stigma of welfare participation is important for policy and survey design, because it deters program take-up and increases misreporting. Stigma is also relevant to the literature on social image concerns, yet empirical evidence is scant because stigma is difficult to empirically identify. We use...

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