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Culture and the Economy : Clan, Entrepreneurship, and Development of the Private Sector in China
Zhang, Chuanchuan - 2019
entrepreneurship and the share of economy in the private sector. Exploring possible mechanisms, I find that clan culture helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902691
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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that the arbitrary political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned more than two hundred ethnic groups across different countries subjecting similar cultures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084103
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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025610
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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from … dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586927
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Irrigation and Culture: Gender Roles and Women’s Rights
Fredriksson, Per G.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
is negatively associated with attitudes to female property rights in Africa and with measures of such rights across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294275
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Irrigation and culture : gender roles and women's rights
Fredriksson, Per; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
is negatively associated with attitudes to female property rights in Africa and with measures of such rights across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297216
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas; Villanger, Espen - 2020
We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179907
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence : evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas; Villanger, Espen - 2020
We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165970