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Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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Unpacking Social Capital

Durante, Ruben; Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social capital and the use of social capital indicators for empirical work. Our data cover a sample of over 600,000 respondents interviewed between 2000 and 2015. We identify four distinct...

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...

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Culture in Historical Political Economy

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a wide variety of economic outcomes. Both the causes and consequences of culture have been the subject of work in Historical Political Economy. I first outline several theories on...

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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 highlighting the role of reputation mechanisms in sustaining cooperation. Reputational concerns can deter defection in one-time interactions within a group, but the informational content...

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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...

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Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism : Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies

Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Moral universalism, the extent to which individuals exhibit similar altruism and trust towards in-group and out-group members, varies widely across societies. We test the hypothesis from anthropology that the requirements of transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally...

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Mortality Risk, Insurance, and the Value of Life

Bauer, Daniel - 2018

assumptions of full annuitization and deterministic health. Our framework can value the prevention of mortality and of illness … add $127 billion to the value of a one percent decline in future mortality …

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Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation

Dow, William H. - 2003

significant but quite small effect of health insurance on child mortality in Costa Rica …One goal of government health insurance programs is to improve health, yet little is known empirically about how … important such government interventions can be in explaining health transitions. We analyze the child mortality effects of a …

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