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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …
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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better … of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level … adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
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Individualism and Working from Home
Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Nilsson, Therese - 2024
This paper investigates the role of individualism in explaining cross-country differences in working from home (WFH … the influence of individualism by comparing immigrants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location …. We find that a 10-point increase in country-of-origin individualism, measured on a 0-100 scale, is associated with a 3 …
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Climate Change and Diet
Bose, Neha; Hills, Thomas; Sgroi, Daniel - 2020
Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food production accounts for about one quarter of aggregate green house emissions and therefore, diet change is one of the most effective ways that individuals can reduce their climate...
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Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns -- about climate change, biodiversity, pollution -- deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023
Chad, which used to be the 11th-largest lake in the world. This African lake the size of El Salvador, Israel, or …
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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity …
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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775118