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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306222
Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
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In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data … driving our findings. Additionally, we present evidence of different mechanisms of transmission of culture (horizontal …
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This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
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We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK regions in 2005 and 2009. The 'potential surprise function' (Shackle, 1949) clarifying why sometimes promising business choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an...
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Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19 but the actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland between February and December 2020. We find that...
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host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …
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This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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