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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014

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 … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier...

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Beware of Unawareness : Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Awareness of Chronic Diseases

Chatterji, Pinka - 2010

This paper studies racial/ethnic disparities in awareness of chronic diseases using biomarker data from the 2006 HRS. We estimate a 3-step sequential probit model which accounts for selection into: (1) participating in biomarker collection; (2) having illness (hypertension or diabetes); (3)...

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Child-Adoption Matching : Preferences for Gender and Race

Baccara, Mariagiovanna - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American...

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...

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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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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

Fryer, Roland G. - 2011

The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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A Community College Instructor Like Me : Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011

Detailed administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if academic performance depends on whether students are the same race or ethnicity as their instructors. To identify racial interactions and address many threats to internal validity we estimate models...

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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011

We investigate jointly the importance of contemporary country-level institutional structures and local ethnic-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization...

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