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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136711
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The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117848
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Resisting Moral Wiggle Room : How Robust is Reciprocity?
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2010
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134984
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Roots of Autocracy
Galor, Oded - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954071
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game : An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026874
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122957
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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018
We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly assigned female recruits to some squads but not others during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926728
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Political Instability and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from the 1981 Military Coup in Spain
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2020
the population, especially in areas that had suffered more repression during the Civil War and the recent dictatorship. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823314
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Is an Army of Robots Marching on Chinese Jobs?
Giuntella, Osea - 2019
A handful of studies have investigated the effects of robots on workers in advanced economies. According to a recent report from the World Bank (2016), 1.8 billion jobs in developing countries are susceptible to automation. Given the inability of labor markets to adjust to rapid changes, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870201