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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Algan, Yann - 2011

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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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2010

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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Trends in Time Allocation : A Cross-Country Analysis

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2012

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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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

to learn from experience is itself affected by economic institutions. A society which does not trust markets is more …

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Trust and the Welfare State : The Twin Peaks Curve

Algan, Yann - 2014

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...

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The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates

Jepsen, Christopher - 2012

This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied associate's degrees. Using administrative data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that...

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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2013

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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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno - 2009

question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … global value change: a continuum of "traditional versus secular", and a continuum "cheating versus active society". Asabiyya …, is a high secularism combined with a high active society score, thus avoiding the "modernization trap". We show that …

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

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