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Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labor Force Dynamics
Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - 2008
Much of the increase in female labor force participation in the post-war period has come from the entry of married women with young children. Accompanying this change has been a rise in cultural acceptance of maternal employment. We argue that the concurrent S-shaped rise in maternal...
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Laws and norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282313
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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405
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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476544
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Culture and Risk-Sharing Networks
Laban Peryman, Jo - 2017
I investigate how students from different cultures form risk-sharing networks when they come to study at university, and how these network structures affect risk attitudes in different contexts. Using an online survey, I find that students from collectivist cultures such as China form larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963769
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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
Gershman, Boris - 2016
This paper reviews recent economics literature on culture, with an emphasis on its relation to the field of long …-run growth and development. It examines the key issues debated in the new cultural economics: causal effects of culture on … economic outcomes, the origins and social costs of culture, as well as cultural transmission, persistence, and change. Some of …
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
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Culture and Public Goods : The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality
Owen, Ann L.; Videras, Julio - 2006
Using data from approximately 11,000 individuals in 14 different OECD regions, we find that culture, as expressed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056674
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Habit formation, work ethics, and technological progress
Faria, João Ricardo; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2002
Work ethics affects labor supply. This idea is modeled assuming that work is habit forming. This paper introduces working habits in a neoclassical growth model and compares its outcomes with a model without habit formation. In addition, it analyzes the impact of different forms of technical...
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Economic growth and social poverty : the evolution of social participation
Antoci, Angelo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; Vanin, Paolo - 2001
We develop an evolutionary model of growth in which agents choose how to allocate their time between private and social activities. We argue that a shift from social to private activities may foster market-based growth, but also generate social poverty. Within a formal framework that merges a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539109