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Family violence and football : the effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior
Card, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2010
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951312
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Effects of maternal work incentives on adolescent social behaviors
Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Kalil, Ariel; … - 2019
This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s, which dramatically limited cash assistance for low-income families, on the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We estimate effects by gender and focus on behaviors that are important for socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992368
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Gender interactions within hierarchies : evidence from the political arena
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831711
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529853
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Empowerment or indoctrination? : female training programs under dictatorship
González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Dessauer, Cristine von - 2024
Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in … for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584385
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A theory of military dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron (contributor); Ticchi, Davide (contributor);  … - 2008
not sufficient, the military can take action against a nondemocratic regime in order to create its own dictatorship. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003707358
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Resisting moral wiggle room : how robust is reciprocity?
Weele, Joël J. van der; Kulisa, Julija; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2010
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313334
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
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 individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755330
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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488294
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
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