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Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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The Power of the Family

Alesina, Alberto - 2007

The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties … using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … children need to have for their parents for over 70 countries. We show that strong family ties imply more reliance on the …

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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture

Enke, Benjamin - 2017

Cultural psychologists and anthropologists argue that societies have developed heterogeneous systems of social organization to cope with social dilemmas, and that an entire bundle of psychological and biological characteristics has coevolved to enforce cooperation within these different regimes....

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto - 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 and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior …

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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …

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Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

educational outcomes. Analyzing the association of gender, immigrant status, and family background factors with scores, we find …

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The Economics of Women's Rights

Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...

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GDP and Temperature : Evidence on Cross-Country Response Heterogeneity

Berg, Kimberly A.; Curtis, Chadwick C.; Mark, Nelson C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use local projections to estimate the cross-country distribution of real GDP per capita growth impulse responses to global and idiosyncratic temperature shocks. Negative growth responses to global temperature at longer horizons are found for all Group of Seven countries while positive...

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Praying for Rain

Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the climate as a determinant of religious belief. People believe in the divine when religious authorities (the "church") can credibly intervene in nature on their behalf. We present a model in which nature sets the pattern of rainfall over time and the church chooses when optimally to...

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Institutions and Global Crop Yields

Wuepper, David; Wang, Haoyu; Schlenker, Wolfram; Jain, Meha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...

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