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This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper provides evidence of a link between an organization's culture … – specifically the trust environment – and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … generalized trust and growth. It also points to an important determinant of a firm's internal structure: corporate culture (of …
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" (Croson and Gneezy, 2009). According to the second one, the institutional culture and the role women have in society are key … western country with a matrilineal culture, introducing – at the same time - social influence in the design. We find more …
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that suggests that culture …
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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 leisure …, but culture of leisure has no impact …
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A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a … variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to … between culture and institutions …
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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 …
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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of … 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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did not find any effect of culture on savings. We revisit this evidence using a novel dataset, which allows us to study …
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