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The Geography of Fear
Treisman, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855516
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Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving
Hungerman, Daniel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of "warm glow" giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710704
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Race and Charitable Church Activity
Hungerman, Daniel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The availability of public funding for charitable church activity has increased dramatically in the past decade. A key dispute over this increased availability is whether congregations' propensity to provide charitable services depends upon the racial composition of the community served. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050130
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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
Berman, Eli; Iannaccone, Laurence R.; Ragusa, Giuseppe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …. We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951461
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O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada
Edlund, Lena; Milligan, Kevin; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
fertility responds strongly to the sex composition of older children for first generation families. For the second generation …, expression of son preference through the fertility channel is muted whereas sex selection seems to persist. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634712
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli; Laitin, David D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089125
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Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252324
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Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity
Wacziarg, Romain; Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We investigate the empirical relationship between ethnicity and culture, defined as a vector of traits reflecting norms, attitudes and preferences. Using surveys of individual values in 76 countries, we find that ethnic identity is a significant predictor of cultural values, yet that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189106
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Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility
Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004691
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Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
Fernandez, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050232