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This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
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occasionally or frequently engaged in high-culture activities stood at 58 percent, while the percentage of those who engaged in … popular-culture activities stood at 64 percent, according to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Compared to …
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market should diagnose the culture of the country with which they will enter into business relationships and they should …
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market are not directly linked to lower corruption. Exploiting country-specific dimensions of culture, we then present … between gender and corruption. Therefore, culture is an important dimension to consider when analyzing the relationship …
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culture, networks and language, (i) by reviewing related studies on the barriers of culture, networks and language in …
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of culture as a process, which avoids a static separation of structure and agency. The same principle underlies some …
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Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to … theorists have formulated a 'cultural materialism' that seeks to reintegrate culture with the material world. This paper argues …
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The paper investigates the question whether constitutions are a proxy for institutional quality. It provides a discussion of institutions and states that constitutions are an example of a formal institution. As any other formal institution, constitutions are also influenced by countries'...
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of individual agents. The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no allowance for culture, as they … effects in assisting well-being and social cohesion. Unless we recognise culture, we can have little understanding of why … egalitarian culture. …
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Optimal growth requires pro-growth institutions and culture. In an optimal growth pattern, institutions and culture … facilitate entrepreneurship and innovation. In contrast, if the development and coevolution of institutions and culture are … and culture that account for their coevolution process. Otherwise, imported growth (i.e., incoming capital flows or …
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