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Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...

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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

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Making Democracy Work : Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

Padró i Miquel, Gerard - 2015

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...

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Academic Dynasties : Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

Durante, Ruben - 2011

Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...

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Family Ties

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013

We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national institutions. We use a measure of family ties, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review...

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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes Towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006

Voigtländer, Nico - 2013

We analyze under which conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our...

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The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

Becker, Gary S. - 2007

Medical care at the end of life, which is often is estimated to contribute up to a quarter of US health care spending, often encounters skepticism from payers and policy makers who question its high cost and often minimal health benefits. It seems generally agreed upon that medical resources are...

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A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

North, Douglass C. - 2007

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics must be a fundamental part of the development...

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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...

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Peers at Work

Mas, Alexandre - 2010

We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity worker could lower the effort of incumbent workers because of free riding; or it could increase the...

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