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On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011

appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …

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Intolerance predicts climate skepticism

Johansson, Alva; Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - 2021

While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions and who are not worried by climate change. In an attempt to understand the basis of climate...

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Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors' Decisions

Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renee B. - 2020

We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from...

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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children

Cipriani, Marco; Giuliano, Paola; Jeanne, Olivier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...

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Ethics in Strategic Thinking: Business Processes and the Global Market Collapse

Natale, Samuel; Sora, Sebastian - In: Journal of Business Ethics 94 (2010) 3, pp. 309-316

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Weber, Work Ethic And Well-Being

Hoorn, André van; Maseland, Robbert - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008

Following Max Weber’s seminal work, much recent work has turned to religious values to explain socio-economic developments. We present a test of Weber’s original thesis that addresses fundamental limitations of previous research. A novel method that builds on happiness research is used to...

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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2008

What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their offspring, and...

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Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society: Many Problems, Little Hope

Voigt, Stefan - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

supportive of the institutions of a free society. …

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The Entrepreneurial Culture: Guiding Principles of the Self-Employed

Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self …-employed. The self- employed rate values higher that aim toward openness to change and self-enhancement. In turn, values related to …

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Culture and values - their relevance for marketing strategies

Rewerts, Astrid Lucie; Hanf, Jon Henrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

developed during the process of socialisation are part of a culture and differ depending on one's cultural background. Therefore …, culture- specific values result in specific consumer behaviour. The aim of our paper is to combine research about buying … motives (generally speaking, consumers' personal values) and about culture- specific consumption patterns. Knowledge of these …

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