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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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Chapter 13 Culture and Economic Development
Streeten, Paul - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 399-412). 2006
This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023816
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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Economic Warfare in Twentieth-Century History and Strategy
Harrison, Mark - 2020
narrowly, focusing on the Allied air campaign against Germany in World War II. There are implications for history and policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833565
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Wars of Conquest and Independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2021
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315756
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269028
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When the state mirrors the family: The design of pension systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274843
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that … culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally … culture, while lending credence to the idea that common ancestry generates persistence and plays a central role in economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528503
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479924