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Place-Based Energy Inequality for Ethnicities in Nepal

Nepal, Rabindra; Best, Rohan; Taylor, Madeline - 2023

This paper assesses ethnic differences for four energy outcomes using a survey of 6,000 households in Nepal. These four outcomes are avoiding open wick lamps, having a solar lighting system, living in a neighbourhood with street lighting, and having a connection to the national grid. We find...

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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans

Horioka, Charles Yuj - 2014

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...

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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012

greater financial health of Japanese households is due more to culture or to government policies, institutions, and other non … explained much better by non-cultural factors than by culture. …

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Are the Japanese unique? Evidence from household saving and bequest behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016

by culture and social norms by examining their saving and bequest behavior. To summarize our main findings, we find that … the Japanese are not a saving-loving people and that their saving behavior is not governed by culture and social norms …, we argue that these findings do not necessarily mean that culture and social norms do not matter. …

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Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States

Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020

Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy level in their self-reported country of ancestry. More specifically, if an individual from a country...

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Culture, money attitudes and economic outcomes

Henchoz, Caroline; Coste, Tristan; Wernli, Boris - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 155 (2019) 2, pp. 1-13

Using novel survey data, we examine attitudes towards money and to what extent they affect economic outcomes in Switzerland. We find that three main types of attitudes towards money co-exist: the prestige and power attitude, the money management attitude and the goal-oriented attitude. The...

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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? A literature survey

Horioka, Charles - 2020

The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries? In...

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Are Americans and Indians more altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? : evidence from a new international survey of bequest plans

Horioka, Charles - 2014

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Effects of Cultural Origin on Entrepreneurship

Jonsson, Sara; Ouyang, Qinglin - 2023

This paper investigates impact of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second-generation immigrants and risk appetite measures from the Global Preference Survey (GPS), we investigate whether risk preferences in parents’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We...

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Why Do People Leave Bequests? For Love or Self-Interest? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans

Horioka, Charles Yuji - School of Economics, University of the Philippines at … - 2014

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