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Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs

Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021

Religion and beliefs in the supernatural are present in all societies. Yet, studies about the spread of small-scale supernatural belief systems remain quite limited. In this work, we test the anthropological hypothesis that historical dependence on pastoralism favored the adoption of customs...

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The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020

caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but …-days, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of own caste workers in the line increases daily individual … when the production line has a more homogeneous caste composition. Production externalities that impose financial costs due …

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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022

We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018

This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

Habyarimana, James; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, Daniel N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...

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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's Convict History

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024

This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...

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