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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
accepted, Review of World Economy, 2021
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
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