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480 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15381
Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15376
Spatial Interactions
Jun Sung Kim, Eleonora Patacchini, Pierre M. Picard, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15374
Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Olivier Bargain, Jordan Loper, Roberta Ziparo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15360
Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
Yannis Georgellis, Andrew E. Clark, Emmanuel Apergis, Catherine Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15348
Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
James Kai-sing Kung, Ömer Özak, Louis Putterman, Shuang Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15212
Does Social Capital Matter? A Study of Hit-and-Run in US Counties
Stefano Castriota, Sandro Rondinella, Mirco Tonin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15179
Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alejandra Abufhele, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Pamela Soto-Ramirez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15166
The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword
Raphaël Franck, Oded Galor, Omer Moav, Ömer Özak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15132
The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
Jin Zhou, James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu
An earlier version of this paper is available as IZA DP No. 13346.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15130
Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust
Matěj Bělín, Tomáš Jelínek, Štepán Jurajda
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15078
The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers
Sebastian Ottinger, Max Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15054
Culture, Gender, and Financial Literacy
Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14989
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education
W. Benjamin Arold, Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14971
Working for Nothing: Personality and Time Allocation in the UK
Marina Della Giusta, Sarah Jewell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14962
Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14938
Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs
Daniel Araújo, Bladimir Carrillo, Breno Sampaio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14937
Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Shirit Katav Herz, Gil S. Epstein
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14910
Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?
Philippe Coulangeon, Denis Fougère
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14862
Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
Xingang Wang, Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14833
The COVID-19 Curtain: Can Past Communist Regimes Explain the Vaccination Divide in Europe?
Maria Ines Berniell, Yarine Fawaz, Anne Laferrere, Pedro Mira, Elizaveta Pronkina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14820
Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Katharina Hartinger, Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14815
Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States
Francisca M. Antman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14802
Education Transmission and Network Formation
Vincent Boucher, Carlo L. Del Bello, Fabrizio Panebianco, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14772
Migration and Cultural Change
Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Arthur Silve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14769
Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Erik Hornung, Guido Schwerdt, Maurizio Strazzeri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14757
Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Martina Kroher, Kathrin Leuze, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14749
The Happy Cultural Omnivore? Exploring the Relationship between Cultural Consumption Patterns and Subjective Well-Being
Enrico Bertacchini, Valentina Bolognesi, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14738
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14734
The Heritability of Trust and Trustworthiness Depends on the Measure of Trust
Nathan Kettlewell, Agnieszka Tymula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14728
The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14719
The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States
Elona Harka, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14677
Migrant Networks and Destination Choice: Evidence from Moves across Turkish Provinces
Abdurrahman Aydemir, Erkan Duman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14621
Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Alessandro Cigno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14567
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US
Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14550
Gender Norms and Intimate Partner Violence
Libertad Gonzalez, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178 (C), 223-248.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14549
Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan
Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Ryuichi Tanaka
published in: Review of Economics of the Household. January 2021. [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14518
Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498
Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14489
Does Money Strengthen Our Social Ties? Longitudinal Evidence of Lottery Winners
Joan Costa-Font, Nattavudh Powdthavee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14476
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France
Yann Algan, Clément Malgouyres, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig
forthcoming in: Economic Journal, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14354
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
Alberto Alesina, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327
Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution
Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14307
Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Shyamal Chowdhury, Varun Satish, Munshi Sulaiman, Yi Sun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14219
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
Danilo Cavapozzi, Marco Francesconi, Cheti Nicoletti
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14198
Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data
Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer
forthcoming in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
published online in: Journal of Population Economics, 07 January 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14076
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
Nora Cheng, Elliott Fan, Tsong-Min Wu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14042
Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Steven J. Bosworth, Dennis J. Snower
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14007
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14005
Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians
Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14002
Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling
Oded Stark, Ruxanda Berlinschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985
Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13964
Interregional Contact and National Identity
Manuel Bagues, Christopher Roth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13946
Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization
Marie Briguglio, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13906
Parents, Neighbors and Youth Crime
Carlos Díaz, Eleonora Patacchini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13897
Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour
Francesco Campo, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850
Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Joan Costa-Font, Anna Nicinska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13783
Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy
Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13769
Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China
Naci Mocan, Han Yu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13765
From Parent to Child? The Long-Lasting Effects of Social Support
Ambra Poggi, Guyonne Kalb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13735
Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Nick Obradovich, Ömer Özak, Ignacio Martín, Edmond Awad, Manuel Cebrián, Rubén Cuevas, Klaus Desmet, Iyad Rahwan, Ángel Cuevas
published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 1920220085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13688
Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Andreas Landmann, Björn Vollan, Karla Henning, Markus Frölich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13680
Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression
Corrado Giulietti, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13607
Gender and Culture
Paola Giuliano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13571
Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
Paola Giuliano, Romain Wacziarg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13511
Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion
Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood, Christopher F. Parmeter, Andres Ramirez Hassan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13507
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Gordon B. Dahl, Christina Felfe, Paul Frijters, Helmut Rainer
forthcoming in: Review of Economic Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13453
Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
forthcoming as "Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries" in: Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13385
From Pink-Collar to Lab Coat: Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms
Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Claudia Senik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, London: Academic Press, 2021, 585-639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349
Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States
Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13346
Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Jin Zhou
A new version of this paper, published in March 2022, can be found under the following link: https://docs.iza.org/ dp13346.pdf.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13312
Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13268
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13241
Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion
David L. Dickinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13205
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193
Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86(3): 259-290.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13192
The Role of Faith and Faith Schooling in Educational, Economic, and Faith Outcomes
Andrew McKendrick, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13174
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann, Martina Viarengo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13126
Gendered Language
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12987
The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior
Joan Costa-Font, Paola Giuliano, Berkay Ozcan
published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202290)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12921
Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women
Yael Goldfarb, Shoshana Neuman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12911
Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States
Francisco J. Pino, Jordi Vidal-Robert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12900
The Cost of Being Too Patient
Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza
published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12894
Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110: 309-13
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12854
Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
Enrico Bertacchini, Alessandra Venturini, Roberto Zotti
published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, Published: 14 January 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12752
Social Norms in Networks
Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 185, 104969.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12751
Assimilation Patterns in Cities
Yasuhiro Sato, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103563.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12730
The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Giulio Zanella, Marina M. Bellani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12709
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Bryan Stuart, Evan J. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12692
Culture or Context? Revisiting the Role of Culture in Shaping Economic Outcomes
Wifag Adnan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12672
The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Asadul Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, Xin Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630
Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Tobias Heidland (né Stöhr), Philipp Wichardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12618
Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian
forthcoming in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2021
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