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concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and …
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formerly-incarcerated. While there is a need for much more research on this topic, the existing evidence provides some useful …
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This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
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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. …
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literature on immigrant family formation is diverse but perhaps the key findings highlighted in this chapter are that outcomes …
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to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine … over time. The economics literature initially explained these differences by looking at standard economic variables such as …
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Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …
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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … cultural norms and female labor supply. For non-Hispanic Whites, the impact of culture is explained by variation in country … of labor supply are local culture and social capital measures. …
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