about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … by economic push factors and social status effects. Only at the highest education levels do we see evidence of pull …

public. In line with the competitive altruism hypothesis, a biology-based explanation for status-seeking behavior, especially …

This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status … self-awareness about status-seeking behavior that is robust to increased belief compensation. We also found that subjects … expected others to be as status-seeking as they are themselves or even less. …

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … goods signals. If concern for status is sufficiently high, then the firm will only place a single variety on the market. …