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, individuals who differ from each other either in terms of their identity traits or of their cultural values experience antagonism …
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Culture shapes how policies are made and how people react to them. This chapter explores how culture and development policy affect each other. First, we provide evidence that cultural mismatch -- specifically a mismatch between project manager background and the location of project...
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This paper analyzes 630,000 paintings from 1400 onward to uncover how visual art reflects its socioeconomic context. We develop a learning algorithm to predict nine basic emotions conveyed in each painting and isolate a context effect--the emotional signal shared across artworks created in the...
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Lab-in-the-field experiments, in which lab experiments are conducted in more naturalistic settings, are increasingly being implemented in developing country contexts. In this chapter, we outline the conceptual and logistical challenges typically associated with lab-in-the-field experiments in...
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adopted here is that culture changes because incentives change, transforming actions and beliefs. An idiosyncratic review of … society and shape people's beliefs. It then examines the role of new information and ideas (i.e., learning) and finally the … evolving beliefs or preferences and to study the importance of intermediating mechanisms. Given that one of the most profound …
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beliefs that influence preferences over policies, parties, and forms of government. While there is substantial evidence that … values and beliefs drive this persistence. A growing body of work points to a multifaceted mapping from underlying … preferences and beliefs over the material world and social relations to political ideology. In this chapter, we summarize these …
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, increasing levels of religiosity. First, we present global trends in religious beliefs and practices, highlighting a religious …
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Culture - the set of socially transmitted values and beliefs held by individuals - has important implications for a …
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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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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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