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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
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On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011
appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285976
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024584
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269659
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of periphrastic future tense, and its association with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180087
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, … - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319563
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Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour
Campo, Francesco; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2020
We provide a large scale within-country analysis of the effect of language future time reference (FTR) on the choice of …'s characteristics, linguistic features other than FTR, and whether individuals maintain their native language or switch to one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497798
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade … that this trade-promoting effect of language is likely to reflect cultural ties, rather than lower costs of communication … or similar institutions. Analyzing unique data for a single-language country, Germany, we find that similarities in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079240
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455548