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Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism

Fiszbein, Martín; Jung, Yeonha; Vollrath, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …

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Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier...

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The Determinants of Trust

Alesina, Alberto - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...

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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

Hout, Michael - 1999

We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the probability that a person with a self-employed parent...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

Bayard, Kimberly - 1999

We examine the possible sources of the larger racial and ethnic wage gaps for men than for women in the U.S. Specifically, using a newly created employer-employee matched data set containing workers in essentially all occupations, industries, and regions, we examine whether these wage...

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Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment

Casella, Alessandra; Guo, Jeffrey; Jiang, Michelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Under majoritarian election systems, securing participation and representation of minorities remains an open problem, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV): each voter has as many votes as open positions and can...

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Red Scare? A Study of Ethnic Prejudice in the Prosecutions under the Economic Espionage Act

Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We empirically test whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) engages in ethnic prejudice against Chinese in its prosecutorial decisions under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996. Using data of EEA cases from November 1996 to June 2021, we conduct Becker's outcome test for evidence of ethnic...

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Marginalized and Overlooked? Minoritized Groups and the Adoption of New Scientific Ideas

Cheng, Wei; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The rapid diffusion and use of new ideas are critical for advancing and realizing the value of innovation. This paper explores the impact of demographic characteristics of innovators and potential adopters on the adoption of important new scientific ideas through networks. Using rich,...

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