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contributions, neither culture nor gender has any significant impact on the equilibrium selected, the amount contributed or the … provision success rate. Nonetheless, culture and gender do affect behavior. Japanese females coordinate significantly less …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …
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innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … 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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This paper aims at analyzing the local gender culture and its impact on the position of women between work and care …, such as local labor markets and administration, with employers as well as women and mothers, the local gender culture is …
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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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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
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strategy is in accordance to Chinese Confucian culture and political value and fits well with its grand strategy of peaceful …
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provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
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