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Gancia, Gino - 2016

The first wave of globalization (1830-1914) witnessed a decline in the number of countries from 125 to 54. Political … consolidation was often achieved through war and conquest. The second wave of globalization (1950-present) has led instead to an … globalization and political structure that accounts for these trends and their reversal. We show that political structure adapts to …

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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne - 2005

Numerous laboratory studies find that minor nuances of presentation and description change behavior in ways that are inconsistent with standard economic models. How much do these context effect matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to...

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Happiness, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy

Levinson, Arik - 2013

The economics of "happiness" shares a feature with behavioral economics that raises questions about its usefulness in public policy analysis. What happiness economists call "habituation" refers to the fact that people's reported well-being reverts to a base level, even after major life events...

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Culture Clash : Incompatible Reputation Mechanisms and Intergroup Conflict

Fouka, Vasiliki; Schläpfer, Alain - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Under what conditions does intergroup contact lead to conflict? We provide a novel answer to this question by … host population discrimination against immigrants and variation in bilateral conflict across ethnic groups …

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Building Criminal Capital behind Bars : Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

Bayer, Patrick - 2007

This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...

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Learning Entrepreneurship From Other Entrepreneurs?

Guiso, Luigi - 2015

We document that individuals who grew up in areas with high density of firms are more likely, as adults, to become entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same individuals are also more likely to be successful...

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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions

Benabou, Roland - 2000

This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...

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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

Manski, Charles F. - 2000

Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...

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Peer Effects in the Workplace : Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments

Guryan, Jonathan - 2007

This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the...

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Neighbors Matter : Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2007

This paper establishes a causal relation between an individual's decision of whether to own stocks and average stock market participation decision of the individual's community. We instrument for the average ownership of an individual's community with lagged average ownership of the states in...

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