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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys

de Laiglesia, Juan R.; Morrisson, Christian - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures differ greatly across countries and are very...

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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2021

This paper proposes three theoretical mechanisms through which polygyny may be related to social unrest. The mechanisms are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic,...

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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the Chinese have a competitive edge over Africans because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chineseʹs supposed...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Südekum, Jens; Heblich, Stephan; Falck, Oliver; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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The role of Culture on Self-Employment

Marcen, Miriam - 2013

There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to … account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment … by exploiting variation in historical self-employment rates by country of origin of second-generation immigrants. Since …

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