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Peers and Culture
Sáez-Martí, María; Sjögren, Anna - 2005
We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that children are not passive in their adoption of traits from peers. Instead they are guided by an...
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The dynamics of continuous cultural traits in social networks
Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Pichler, Michael M. - 2011
We consider an OLG model (of a socialization process) where continuous traits are transmitted from an adult generation to the children. A weighted social network describes how children are influenced not only by their parents but also by other role models within the society. Parents can invest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319974
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Trust Issues: Evidence from Second Generation Immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2012
This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320303
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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II - ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273867
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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283630
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310691
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Does culture affect unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269078
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274515
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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption
Hauk, Esther; Sáez-Martí, María - 2001
corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education effort exerted by parents which depends on … interventions which via parents' efforts have long-lasting effects on corruption and show the success of intensive education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334670
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Özek, Umut; … - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559576