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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984542
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873558
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351887
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296648
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700854
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328954