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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
model explains the economic origins of culture. It was no accident that the intricate steps of tango emerged in the shabby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504741
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Culture, Institutions and Democratization
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The … culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster than countries with a collectivist culture. Our instrumental … variable estimation suggests a strong and robust effect of individualistic culture on average polity scores and length of …
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Culture, Languages, and Economics
Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The impact of various facets of cultural diversity on economic outcomes has become a topic of intensive research in economics. This paper focuses on linguistic diversity as one of the important aspects of cultural heterogeneity, and more specifically, The aim of this paper is to formally examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083315
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Migration, Friendship Ties, and Cultural Assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
In this paper we contribute to the analysis of the assimilation process of migrants by analyzing the extent to which friendship with natives can be seen as a measure of cultural assimilation and investigating the formation of social ties in the host country. Using novel information from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083380
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Culture: Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
persistence than previously thought. Finally, we show that persistence is “culture specific" in the sense that the country from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083563
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Persistent effects of empires: Evidence from the partitions of Poland
Grosfeld, Irena; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We use spatial regression discontinuity analysis to test whether the historical partition of Poland among three empires—Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Prussia—has a persistent effect on political outcomes in contemporary Poland and to examine the channels of this influence. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083639
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The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the causal effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland is a multilingual country that hosts four official language groups of which three are major (French, German, and Italian). These groups of native language speakers are geographically...
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A Cultural Clash View of the EU Crisis
Guiso, Luigi; Herrera, Helios; Morelli, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
management of the Greek crisis and the resulting European Sovereign debt crisis. We show the conditions under which the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083748
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083828
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The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants
Atkin, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? To answer this question, I first document that … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …
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