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Adukia, Anjali; Alsan, Marcella; Goldhaber-Fiebert, … - 2020

Infant mortality among Hindus is higher than among Muslims in India, and religious differences in sanitation practices have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore whether religion itself is associated with differences in sanitation practices, this study compares sanitation practices of...

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The third function of law is to transform cultural categories

Hoff, Karla Ruth; Walsh, James - 2019

How does law change society? In the rational actor model, law affects behavior only by changing incentives and information-the command and coordination function of law. Under the view that humans are social animals, law is also a guidepost for social norms that regulate behavior-the expressive...

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Assessing urban policies using a simulation model with formal and informal housing : application to Cape Town, South Africa

Coville, Aidan; Di Maro, Vincenzo; Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2019

Building on a two-dimensional discrete version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic closed-city framework...

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Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior

Hoff, Karla Ruth; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2016

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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2011

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Culture, politics, and development

Woolcock, Michael - 2014

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Does culture matter or firm? : demand for female labor in three Indian cities

Bordia Das, Maitreyi; Mehta, Soumya Kapoor; Žumbytė, Ieva - 2019

In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture … and attitudes have created a labor market that is inherently discriminatory. The unsaid corollary is that culture is slow … the role of culture is slim at best. This paper fills the void in the policy literature, as it assesses the relative role …

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The making of behavioral development economics

Demeritt, Allison; Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2018

illuminates the tight interlinkages between preferences, culture, and institutions and points to new policy opportunities. It …

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The whys of social exclusion : insights from behavioral economics

Hoff, Karla Ruth; Walsh, James - 2017

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Does culture matter for development?

López-Claros, Augusto; Perotti, Valeria - 2014

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