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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...
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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...
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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...
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide - 2013
We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...
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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We …-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we document that the … historical presence of European immigrants is associated with a more liberal political ideology and with stronger preferences for …
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The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate ideological backlashes and at other times lead to transformative sociopolitical movements? We propose an explanation that highlights the...
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