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Names and behavior in a war
Jurajda, Štěpán; Kovač, Dejan - 2020
nationalism conveyed by first names to suggests that in ex-Yugoslav Croatia, nationalism was on a continuous rise starting in the …We implement a novel empirical strategy for measuring and studying a strong form of nationalism - the willingness to … fight and die in a war for national independence - using name choices corresponding to previous war leaders. Based on data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149018
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What's in a Name in a War
Jurajda, Štepán; Kovač, Dejan - 2016
use the universe of Croatian birth certificates and the information about nationalism conveyed by first names to contrast … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584646
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Names and Behavior in a War
Jurajda, Štěpán; Kovač, Dejan - 2020
nationalism conveyed by first names to suggests that in ex-Yugoslav Croatia, nationalism was on a continuous rise starting in the …We implement a novel empirical strategy for measuring and studying a strong form of nationalism - the willingness to … fight and die in a war for national independence - using name choices corresponding to previous war leaders. Based on data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147430
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Names and behavior in a war
Jurajda, Štěpán; Kovač, Dejan - In: Journal of population economics : international … 34 (2021) 1, pp. 1-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418134
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What's in a Name in a War
Jurajda, Stepan - 2016
use the universe of Croatian birth certificates and the information about nationalism conveyed by first names to contrast … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979853
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What's in a Name in a War
Jurajda, Stepan - 2016
use the universe of Croatian birth certificates and the information about nationalism conveyed by first names to contrast … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …We propose a novel empirical strategy for identifying and studying nationalism using name choices. We first show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979997
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The chips are down : the influence of family on children's trust formation
Giulietti, Corrado; Rettore, Enrico; Tonini, Sara - 2016
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493938
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Parental involvement and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences, attitude and personality traits
Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2020
We empirically investigate the link between parental involvement and shaping of the economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and locus of control of parents and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293100
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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672855
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Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
Standard homo economicus lives in a world of complete markets and maximizes utility which is a function of his personal consumption. This approximation cannot account for parents making transfers to adult children, children taking care of old parents, nor for gifts, inheritance and many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023665