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Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child care, and increases in women's paid work and child care coupled with decreases in unpaid work. We...
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Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to …
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agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing … particular the range of ancestral cultural traits in society, they independently affected human behavior and economic outcomes …
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This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting …
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and world society possible in the long run. Starting from our multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data …. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …
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and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …
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What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …
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This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
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