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The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences
Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019
substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow … interactions. The insufficient persistence of survey proxies for such traits may compromise empirical studies of culture as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130251
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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580542
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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596150
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The role of historical resource constraints in modern gender inequality : a cross-country analysis
Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2014
inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme's Gender Inequality Index. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393892
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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union
Campos, Nauro - 2021
, focusing on whether the prospect of EU membership accelerated institutional development and, if so, whether this was indeed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792626
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Close encounters of the European kind: economic integration, sectoral heterogeneity and structural reforms
Campos, Nauro; Eichenauer, Vera; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291227
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To Europe or not to Europe? : migration and public support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2019
, which, in turn, is likely to affect political and institutional development of these countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996339
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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309018
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Immigrants and demography : marriage, divorce, and fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250042
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335