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We consider multi-stage elimination contests, where agents efforts at different stages generate some output for the organizers. Depending on the output function we characterize the optimal prize structure of the tournament and show that it is almost efficient. We have found that in some cases...
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This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...
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The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...
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failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the …, modernization and authoritarianism share no association with the onset of Islamist militancy. The latter findings imply that …
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radical government and modernization stochastic games. I find that modernization occurs in a collectivist economy when the … in power, the leader credibly commits to provide more public goods in the future, and thus modernization occurs …. Underdevelopment occurs at intermediate levels of state enforcement, modernization at low levels and centralization at high levels of …
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