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Industry and Identity : The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the … identity change and its variation across space. We develop and estimate a quantitative spatial model in which migration and … cultural identities are inter-dependent. Different components of economic modernization had different effects on identity …

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The Signaling Value of Government Action : The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders

Aşık, Güneş; Mocan, Naci - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze the expressive content of government action, focusing on Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed at protecting women against violence, signed and ratified by 39 countries. In 2021, ten years after signing the Convention, the Turkish government withdrew from it, on the...

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Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution within economics and business. We trace the field's shift from the 20th-century concept of homo economicus universalis to an approach incorporating cultural embeddedness in...

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Vanguard : Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Ang, Desmond; Chinoy, Sahil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millions of digitized military and NAACP records, we document the pioneering role...

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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 …

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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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Movies

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

reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral …

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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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