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managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
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Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...
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We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...
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This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...
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We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets … instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …
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for individual and municipality features, we find that individuals living in municipalities more exposed to Chinese import … migrate to the US. In particular, we find that Chinese import competition reduces migrants' negative self-selection: the …
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We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...
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of Chinese import penetration at the firm level on wages within job-spells and over the longer term taking transitions in … the labor market into account. We find that greater exposure to Chinese imports corresponds to a negative firm …-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …
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