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the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …
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This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the …
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Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of … locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the culture and the national identity of the host country. We use a search …
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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international …, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls … for mainstreaming migration in development with some origin countries making specific attempts at incorporating migration …
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generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization - across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique … socialization - within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious …/findings are that (i) direct religious socialization efforts of one generation have a negative effect on secularization within the …
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for socialization in the intergenerational transmission of preferences that predict economic behaviour. …
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this socialization decreases when we control for parents risk attitudes. Third, since there are strong gender roles in …
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We study the impact of early socialization on gender inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link the gender …
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Governments use coercion to aggregate distributed information relevant to governmental objectives-from the prosecution of regime-stability threats to terrorism or epidemics. A cohesive social structure facilitates this task, as reliable information will often come from friends and acquaintances....
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