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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan - 2008
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
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Are Americans and Indians More Altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014
desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and … bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on actual bequests, bequest motives, and bequest division, the paper … presents data on the strength of bequest motives, stated bequest motives, and bequest division plans from a new international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458506
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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?
Ding, Weili - 2006
from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466364
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The Revealed Preference of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership : Investing in Local Economic Development versus Rewarding Social Connections
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2018
park site selection and document the willingness of China's provincial leaders to sacrifice economic development in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453257
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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang
Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322864
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Hukou and Guanxi : How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China
Zhuge, Liqun; Lang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Hukou, China's household registration system, affects access to public services and signals the strength of a person …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287338
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Reciprocity versus Reelection
Dalmia, Prateik - 2020
We study how reelection concerns affect reciprocity by elected leaders to the voters who elected them. If showing kindness to past voters reduces the chances of reelection, will an elected leader reduce or eliminate such intrinsic reciprocity? We present a signalling model of candidate behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481495
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Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481717
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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009
The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463506
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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences
Falk, Armin - 2017
This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453771