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International trade and cultural diversity : a model of preference selection
Bala, Vankatesh; Long, Ngo Van - 2004
provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261231
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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe
Tabellini, Guido - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261295
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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture
Spiro, Daniel - 2019
This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892087
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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022
cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240868
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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022
cultural stereotypes at the bank level, we show that corporate culture at bank headquarters is influenced by foreign …. We therefore leverage the geography of multinational bank branch networks to construct a bank-specific measure of culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290033
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Spatial exporters
Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2011
In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280629
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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283630
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The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries
Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - 2012
Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...
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The Effect of Classroom Rank on Learning Throughout Elementary School: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannu; Salvati, Francesca; … - 2024
We study the impact of classroom rank on children's learning using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between kindergarten and 6th grade. Students with the same ability can have different classroom ranks because of...
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Teacher Subject Knowledge, Didactic Skills, and Student Learning in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Sepahvand, Mohammad H. - 2022
We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning in francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. We use data from an international large-scale assessment in 14 countries that include individual-level information on student achievement and...
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