literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making … repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by …

literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making … repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …

predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …

endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the …-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …

institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical, and historical bent to assess the presence of a two-way causal effect … between culture and institutions. …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … the information in zero value migration flows and (iv) examining not only total migration flows but also college … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

smaller countries that were historically backward and developed a different set of political and economic institutions during … political institutions for the long-run evolution of wealth-income ratios. …