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Determinants of Human Development: Capturing the Role of Institutions

Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - CESifo - 2011

In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...

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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Foreign Language Learning: An Econometric Analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad decision to learn, while two concern as well the choice...

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Genes, Economics, and Happiness

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - CESifo - 2010

We explore the influence of genetic variation on subjective well-being by employing a twin design and genetic association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction is explained by genetic variation. Although previous...

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Language as a Renewable Resource: Import, Dissipation, and Absorption of Innovations

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - CESifo - 2012

The structural stability of different languages subject to the import of external elements is analyzed. We focus on the temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of import and dissipation of new elements is seen...

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture … individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous variation in culture, I rely on two historical variables used as … level. The exogenous component of culture due to history is strongly correlated with current regional economic development …

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints - Evidence from Froebel's Kindergarten Movement

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2014

We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel’s birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to...

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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

finding as evidence for the effect of culture on trade. …

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