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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2012
We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969027
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The Economic Origins of the Evil Eye Belief
Gershman, Boris - 2013
The evil eye belief is a widespread superstition according to which people can cause harm by a mere envious glance at coveted objects or their owners. This paper argues that such belief originated and persisted as a useful heuristic under conditions in which envy was likely to trigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925728
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399717
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2012
We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552112
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From Family Culture to Welfare State Design
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2013
We study how family culture affected the initial welfare state design. Our theoretical framework shows that pre … is embedded in the family culture that later affected the design of pension systems. Countries with equalitarian … inheritance rules acquired a non-individualistic family culture that induced the adoption of generous Bismarckian pension systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696255
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When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671713
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Handbook of Economic Growth
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043182
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The economic origins of the evil eye belief
Gershman, Boris - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 110 (2015) C, pp. 119-144
The evil eye belief is a widespread superstition according to which people can cause harm by a mere envious glance at coveted objects or their owners. This paper argues that such belief originated and persisted as a useful heuristic under conditions in which envy was likely to trigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190125
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548
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From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2007
This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury … to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by Swedish scholars, at … least concerning the period prior to the introduction of the sugar beet in the late 19th century. The paper will try to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423769