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87 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17270
Network Abroad and Culture: Global Individual-Level Evidence
Riccardo Turati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17210
Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change
James Albrecht, Per-Anders Edin, Raquel Fernández, Jiwon Lee, Peter Skogman Thoursie, Susan Vroman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16833
Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration
Yvonne Giesing, Björn Kauder, Lukas Mergele, Niklas Potrafke, Panu Poutvaara
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16458
Can Patience Account For Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16210
Roots of Inequality
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16068
The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16006
Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks
Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15697
Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?
Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Stephen Roll, Matthew V. Zahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15570
Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Ömer Özak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15501
Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 210, 210-225.
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. 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. 15054
Culture, Gender, and Financial Literacy
Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
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. 14772
Migration and Cultural Change
Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Arthur Silve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14042
Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Steven J. Bosworth, Dennis J. Snower
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. 13453
Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
published as 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2290-2307
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13349
Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States
Maddalena Davoli, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13312
Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13126
Gendered Language
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier
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, 309-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12692
Culture or Context? Revisiting the Role of Culture in Shaping Economic Outcomes
Wifag Adnan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630
Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Tobias Heidland, Philipp Wichardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12536
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, Stepan Mikula
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 12536
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11982
Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11954
A Theory of Conservative Revivals
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror
published as 'A Theory of Cultural Revivals' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 135, 103-134.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11816
Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Oded Galor, Viacheslav Savitskiy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11592
Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study
David L. Dickinson, David Masclet
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215. (10.1016/j.jebo.2019.08.023)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554
The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, Vol. 25(3), 297-340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11553
Diversity and Growth
Mark Gradstein, Moshe Justman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11528
Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1): 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11415
Cultural Change and the Migration Choice
Mauro Lanati, Alessandra Venturini
published in: Review of World Economy, 2021, 157, 799 - 852
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11173
Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Frédéric Docquier, Aysit Tansel, Riccardo Turati
published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10929
Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia
Marianna Battaglia, Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Lara Lebedinski
published as 'Segregation, fertility, and son preference: the case of the Roma in Serbia' in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 233-260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10818
Roots of Autocracy
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10703
The Ideological Roots of Institutional Change
Murat Iyigun, Jared Rubin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10585
Gender Differences in the Link between Income and Trust Levels: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Jessica R. Bilson, Michael Jetter, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10474
The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor
published in: Journal of Economic Literature 2018, 56 (3), 1119–1155
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10379
Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Oded Galor, Ömer Özak, Assaf Sarid
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10269
Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions
Bastien Chabé-Ferret
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 162, 24 - 48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9544
Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data
Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh, Oleg Yerokhin
published in Economic Record, 2016, 92 (299): 648-665.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9540
Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries
Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (3), 658 - 684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9060
Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Scott L. Fulford, Ivan Petkov, Fabio Schiantarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8765
Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2015, 39, 341-367
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752
Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman
revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8640
The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions
Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Gerhard Riener
published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8625
Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571
Ethnic Identity and Work
Amelie F. Constant
published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8522
Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Vincenzo Scoppa, Manuela Stranges
published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8460
Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity: Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level
Annie Tubadji, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8384
Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Willie Belton, Yameen Huq, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8132
Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply
Duygu Guner, Gokce Uysal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8126
Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Naci Mocan, Christian Raschke
published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 1-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7868
Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Amelie F. Constant, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann
revised version published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2024, 22 (2), 205 - 230
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7684
Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Elaine M. Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Joseph Tao-yi Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7397
Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Alfred Lameli, Volker Nitsch, Jens Suedekum, Nikolaus Wolf
published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7385
Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Eva Spring, Volker Grossmann
published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7203
Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Julie Moschion, Domenico Tabasso
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7176
Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor
published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7020
Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6330
The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor
published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 1-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6314
The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
Nick Drydakis
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (2), 285-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6175
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Claudia Senik
published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6078
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012, 36 (3), 389 - 402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6011
Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010
Pieter Bevelander, Anders Hellström
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5584
The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4747
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Paola Giuliano
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4743
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Jens Suedekum
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4620
Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4283
Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4275
Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4150
Family Ties and Political Participation
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3445
Paintings and Numbers: An Econometric Investigation of Sales Rates, Prices and Returns in Latin American Art Auctions
Nauro F. Campos, Renata Leite Barbosa
revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (1), 28–51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3063
Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3056
Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Ekonomia, 2007, 10 (1), 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3050
Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
Amelie F. Constant, Rowan Roberts, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1879-1898
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2750
The Power of the Family
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (2), 93-125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2535
Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
Laura V Zimmermann, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Amelie F. Constant
published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2437
Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2420
Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2350
Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process
Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Laura V Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2300
Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Laura V Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2229
Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo, Giovanni Tonon
published as 'Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 179-198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2040
Ethnosizing Immigrants
Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 69 (3), 274-287
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