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Nkurunziza, Janvier - 2012

This study investigates the performance of the financial system in Burundi in mobilizing and allocating resources … Burundi, it takes the view that unlocking the financing constraint could alleviate other impediments to growth and poverty …

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Comparing Economic and Social Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Central and Southern Africa

Plumb, Radha - 2014

conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in … in household authority, with the Burundi study showing statistical significance. In South Africa there was a large …, albeit short lived decrease in domestic violence. In Burundi there was small reduction but trends suggest a longer duration …

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Fertility and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....

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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Diversity and Donations : The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2011

We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012

We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and borrowers improves the efficiency of credit allocation. We identify in-group preferential treatment using dyadic data on the religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a...

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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Giavazzi, Francesco - 2010

We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...

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