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And thou shalt honor : children's caregiving, work and religion

Mazzotta, Fernanda; Bettio, Francesca; Zigante, Valentina - 2018 - draft, March 2018

In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...

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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and...

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2020

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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Grohmann, Tobias - 2023 - This version 15 November 2023

Theory suggests that cultural similarity increases migration flows between countries. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration to test this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time-varying similarity variables in a panel of...

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022

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Roots of inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a mar- ket economy, where earning differentials re ect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control …

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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus

Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020

Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...

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Ethnic divisions and the onset of civil wars in Syria

Abosedra, Salah S.; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021

conflicts in Syria. The paper offers detailed policy suggestions that could serve as a recovery mechanism for the Syrian crisis …

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control …

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