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Fishermen's wives : on the cultural origins of violence against women
Leyaro, Vincent; Selaya, Pablo; Trifkovic, Neda - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of labor for solving that problem in each society....
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Artificial intelligence and artistic imagination : revisiting the cultural economy of industrial revolutions
Jora, Octavian-Dragomir; Iacob, Mihaela; Roșca, Vlad I.; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 26 (2024) 66, pp. 613-632
services defines and refines us as humans. The economics of culture, notwithstanding its deeply rooted epistemological …
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What matters and why? : ecosystem services and their bundled qualities
Klain, Sarah C.; Satterfield, Terre A.; Chan, Kai M. A. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 107 (2014), pp. 310-320
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What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities
Klain, Sarah C.; Satterfield, Terre A.; Chan, Kai M.A. - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 310-320
Much ecosystem service (ES) research is structured around four often implicit assumptions about ES, benefits, and stakeholders' conceptions of these: 1) ES assessors can identify and characterize priority ES across stakeholders without local participation; 2) Stakeholders derive one kind of...
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Cultural distance and conflict-related sexual violence
Guarnieri, Eleonora; Tur-Prats, Ana - 2020
a conflict; (ii) differences in other dimensions of culture unrelated to gender do not explain conflict-related sexual …
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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Culture and the spatial dissemination of ideas evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement : conference paper
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2013 - This version: January 2013
Friedrich Froebel, a German pedagogue, established the first kindergarten worldwide in Thuringia in 1839. We study the spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial dissemination can be explained by the cultural proximity,...
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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021
This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497183
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Mortgage finance and culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796425
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Institutions, culture, and wetland values
Mayula Chaikumbung; Doucouliagos, Chris; Scarborough, Helen - 2018
Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …
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