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Field Experiments in Strategy Research

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

theories regarding corporate culture. …

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Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?

Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. …

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The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the Role of Institutions

Belton, Willie; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

evidence of the long-lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and culture. In this paper, we provide an … be attributed solely to racial discrimination but can be explained by the response of culture to institutional … transmitted through culture can help to explain this persistent saving disparity. …

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

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The Right Amount of Trust

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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Family Ties and Political Participation

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politicoeconomic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …

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