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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social … responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … in poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal …

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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Leadership skills and wages

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...

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Human values and selection into supervisory positions : evidence from nine European countries

Hazans, Mihails; Masso, Jaan; Maurseth, Per Botolf - 2023

Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses data from rounds 7-9 of the European Social Survey to examine the selection of employees into...

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Is there such thing as middle class values? : class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - 2012

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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Trust, values and false consensus

Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...

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Compulsory schooling laws and formation of beliefs : education, religion and superstition

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Family ties

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2013

We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...

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Gender and culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...

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The volatility of survey measures of culture and its consequences

Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019

Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and...

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