NBER Papers in JEL Code Z1: Other Special Topics - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology

2022
w29789 Matias Giaccobasso
Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
w29695 Etienne Le Rossignol
Sara Lowes
Nathan Nunn

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
2021
w29472 Stefanie DeLuca
Nicholas W. Papageorge
Joseph L. Boselovic
Seth Gershenson
Andrew Gray
Kiara M. Nerenberg
Jasmine Sausedo
Allison Young

"When Anything Can Happen": Anticipated Adversity and Postsecondary Decision-Making
w29458 Rafael Di Tella
Ramiro H. Gálvez
Ernesto Schargrodsky

Does Social Media cause Polarization? Evidence from access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate
w29451 Ángel Cuevas
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests
w29250 Yiming Cao
Benjamin Enke
Armin Falk
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
w29246 Conrad Miller
Ian M. Schmutte

The Dynamics of Referral Hiring and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Brazil
w29230 Filipe R. Campante
Ruben Durante
Andrea Tesei

Media and Social Capital
w29123 Anjali Adukia
Alex Eble
Emileigh Harrison
Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
Teodora Szasz

What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books
w29062 Raquel Fernández
Sahar Parsa

Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans, and Same-Sex Relationships
w28821 Eduardo Montero
Dean Yang

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals
w28718 Catherine Balfe
Patrick Button
Mary Penn
David Schwegman

Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies
w28714 Gauthier Marchais
Christian M. Mugaruka
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

The Forging of a Rebel
w28580 William N. Goetzmann
Christophe Spaenjers
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Real and Private-Value Assets
w28531 Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Monica P. Bhatt
Philip J. Cook
Jonathan M.V. Davis
Kenneth Dodge
George Farkas
Roland G. Fryer Jr
Susan Mayer
Harold Pollack
Laurence Steinberg

Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents
w28448 Leonardo Bursztyn
Thomas Chaney
Tarek Alexander Hassan
Aakaash Rao

The Immigrant Next Door: Long-Term Contact, Generosity, and Prejudice
w28406 Monica P. Bhatt
Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Anuj K. Shah

Scope Challenges to Social Impact
w28365 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson
Cynthia Kinnan

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
w28326 Gaia Dossi
David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
2020
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w28243 Eoin F. McGuirk
Nathan Nunn

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
w28235 Marcelo L. Bergolo
Martin Leites
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Matias Strehl

What Makes a Tax Evader?
w28212 Ş. Pelin Akyol
Naci H. Mocan

Education and Consanguineous Marriage
w28101 Trevon Logan
Lisa D. Cook
John Parman

The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names
w27918 Sara Lowes
Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics
w27893 Sara Lowes
Eduardo Montero

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
w27835 Pablo Mitnik
Anne-Line Helsø
Victoria L. Bryant

Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
w27827 Nick Obradovich
Ömer Özak
Ignacio Martín
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Edmond Awad
Manuel Cebrián
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Iyad Rahwan
Ángel Cuevas

Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
w27816 Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

My Taxes are Too Darn High: Why Do Households Protest their Taxes?
w27725 Paola Giuliano
Gender and Culture
w27706 Nathan Nunn
History as Evolution
w27651 Paola Giuliano
Romain Wacziarg

Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
w27493 Wenzhi Ding
Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Wensi Xie

Competition Laws, Norms and Corporate Social Responsibility
w27484 Eric A. Hanushek
Lavinia Kinne
Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann

Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
w27417 Leonardo Bursztyn
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott

Misinformation During a Pandemic
w27356 James J. Heckman
Bei Liu
Mai Lu
Jin Zhou

The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
w27320 John M. Barrios
Efraim Benmelech
Yael V. Hochberg
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Civic Capital and Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
w27288 Leonardo Bursztyn
Ingar K. Haaland
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth

Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression
w27238 Paola Giuliano
Marco Tabellini

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
w27189 Nicola Gennaioli
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Trust and Insurance Contracts
w27099 Zhixian Lin
Christopher M. Meissner

Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19
w27086 Douglas Almond
Xinming Du
Shuang Zhang

Ambiguous Pollution Response to COVID-19 in China
w27073 Samuel Bazzi
Masyhur Hilmy
Benjamin Marx

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
w27053 Alberto F. Alesina
Marlon Seror
David Y. Yang
Yang You
Weihong Zeng

Persistence Despite Revolutions
w26979 Daniel M. Hungerman
Vivek S. Moorthy

Every Day is Earth Day: Evidence on the Long-term Impact of Environmental Activism
w26831 Julien Pénasse
Luc Renneboog
José A. Scheinkman

When a Master Dies: Speculation and Asset Float
w26699 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
Assaf Sarid

Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
w26693 Monira Essa Aloud
Sara Al-Rashood
Ina Ganguli
Basit Zafar

Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women
w26677 Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza

The cost of being too patient
w26674 Gordon B. Dahl
Cristina Felfe
Paul Frijters
Helmut Rainer

Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
2019
w26582 Brad M. Barber
Adair Morse
Ayako Yasuda

Impact Investing
w26530 Zoë B. Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
w26529 John F. Helliwell
Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
w26352 Hitoshi Shigeoka
Long-Term Consequences of Growing up in a Recession on Risk Preferences
w26061 Enrico Spolaore
Commanding Nature by Obeying Her: A Review Essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth
w25963 Patrick Button
Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives
w25791 Justine S. Hastings
Mark Howison
Sarah E. Inman

Predicting High-Risk Opioid Prescriptions Before they are Given
w25746 Jason A. Aimone
Brittany Ward
James E. West

Dishonest Behavior: Sin Big or Go Home
w25697 Raquel Fernández
Sahar Parsa
Martina Viarengo

Coming out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
w25693 David Atkin
Eve Colson-Sihra
Moses Shayo

How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
w25676 Basil Halperin
Benjamin Ho
John A. List
Ian Muir

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
w25622 Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
w25535 Gaia Dossi
David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza

Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
w25506 Garance Genicot
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks
w25497 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Markus Mobius

Naive Learning with Uninformed Agents
w25490 Guillaume Blanc
Romain Wacziarg

Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895
w25474 Martin Halla
Chia-Lun Liu
Jin-Tan Liu

The Effect of Superstition on Health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost Month
w25430 Stelios Michalopoulos
Melanie Meng Xue

Folklore
w25429 Michela Giorcelli
Nicola Lacetera
Astrid Marinoni

How Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis
2018
w25355 Samantha Bielen
Wim Marneffe
Naci H. Mocan

Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Judicial Decisions: Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms
w25289 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
Assaf Sarid

Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
w25273 Oded Galor
Viacheslav Savitskiy

Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
w25270 Chih-Sheng Hsieh
Stanley I. M. Ko
Jaromír Kovářík
Trevon Logan

Non-Randomly Sampled Networks: Biases and Corrections
w25174 Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Scott Kincaid
Nikhil Naik

Computer Vision and Real Estate: Do Looks Matter and Do Incentives Determine Looks
w25169 Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Benjamin Golub
He Yang

Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning
w25161 Ori Heffetz
Expenditure Visibility and Consumer Behavior: New Evidence
w25151 Samuel Bazzi
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick
Benjamin Marx

The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia
w25145 Zoë B. Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
w24954 Resul Cesur
Travis Freidman
Joseph J. Sabia

Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital
w24905 Charles F. Manski
The Lure of Incredible Certitude
w24904 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Jonathan Guryan
Jessica Pan

The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination
w24841 Zoë Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
w24798 Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Jean Tirole

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
w24736 Leonardo Bursztyn
Alessandra L. González
David Yanagizawa-Drott

Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia
w24694 Klaus Desmet
Joseph Gomes
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
w24644 Christopher S. Carpenter
Casey Warman

Do 'All-Age' Bicycle Helmet Laws Work? Evidence from Canada
w24630 Klaus Desmet
Romain Wacziarg

The Cultural Divide
w24572 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Moral NIMBY-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
w24533 Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Ugo Troiano

Social Capital, Government Expenditures and Growth
w24495 Camilo García-Jimeno
Angel Iglesias
Pinar Yildirim

Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action
w24396 Naci H. Mocan
Samantha Bielen
Wim Marneffe

Quality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty
w24374 Daniel M. Hungerman
Kevin Rinz
Tim Weninger
Chungeun Yoon

Political Campaigns and Church Contributions
w24278 Gharad T. Bryan
James J. Choi
Dean Karlan

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
w24209 Jacob Moscona
Nathan Nunn
James A. Robinson

Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
2017
w24088 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach
w23785 Francesco D’Acunto
Marcel Prokopczuk
Michael Weber

Historical Antisemitism, Ethnic Specialization, and Financial Development
w23768 Elaine L. Hill
David Slusky
Donna Ginther

Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-Owned Hospitals
w23761 John F. Helliwell
Lara B. Aknin
Hugh Shiplett
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being
w23719 John Cawley
Euna Han
Jiyoon (June) Kim
Edward C. Norton

Testing for Peer Effects Using Genetic Data
w23709 Naci H. Mocan
Han Yu

Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China
w23635 Paola Giuliano
Gender: An Historical Perspective
w23617 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
w23615 Nicolas L. Bottan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income
w23523 George Akerlof
Pascal Michaillat

Beetles: Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
w23441 Gerard Roland
David Y. Yang

China's Lost Generation: Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational Transmission
w23431 Olav Sorenson
Innovation Policy in a Networked World
w23415 Leonardo Bursztyn
Georgy Egorov
Stefano Fiorin

From Extreme to Mainstream: How Social Norms Unravel
w23325 Alberto Alesina
Guido Tabellini
Francesco Trebbi

Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?
w23301 Oded Galor
Marc Klemp

Roots of Autocracy
w23255 John R. Graham
Campbell R. Harvey
Jillian Popadak
Shivaram Rajgopal

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
w23214 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Paola Salardi

Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
w23207 Nathan Nunn
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

Why Being Wrong can be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs
w23199 Quamrul H. Ashraf
Oded Galor

The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
w23196 Jacob Moscona
Nathan Nunn
James A. Robinson

Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
w23159 Daniel M. Hungerman
Kevin J. Rinz
Jay Frymark

Beyond the Classroom: The Implications of School Vouchers for Church Finances
w23043 Leonardo Bursztyn
Thomas Fujiwara
Amanda Pallais

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
2016
w23013 Leonardo Bursztyn
Robert Jensen

Social Image and Economic Behavior in the Field: Identifying, Understanding and Shaping Social Pressure
w22673 Nicola Lacetera
Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts
w22632 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
w22541 David Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Umut Özek
Paola Sapienza

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
w22417 Nava Ashraf
Natalie Bau
Nathan Nunn
Alessandra Voena

Bride Price and Female Education
w22203 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Bénabou

Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
w22153 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Wensi Xie

Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises: The Roles of Trust and Trade Credit
w21934 James Andreoni
Michael A. Kuhn
Larry Samuelson

Starting Small: Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
w21907 Stelios Michalopoulos
Louis Putterman
David N. Weil

The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa
2015
w21829 Ernesto Dal Bó
Pablo Hernández
Sebastián Mazzuca

The Paradox of Civilization: Pre-Institutional Sources of Security and Prosperity
w21823 Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Striving for Balance in Economics: Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior
w21701 Charles F. Manski
John V. Pepper

How Do Right-To-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping With Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions
w21611 Leonardo Bursztyn
Stefano Fiorin
Daniel Gottlieb
Martin Kanz

Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
w21561 Simone Moriconi
Giovanni Peri

Country-Specific Preferences and Employment Rates in Europe
w21506 Stelios Michalopoulos
Alireza Naghavi
Giovanni Prarolo

Islam, Inequality and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
w21371 Filipe Campante
David Yanagizawa-Drott

The Intergenerational Transmission of War
w21297 Naci H. Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova

Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
w21267 Andrew W. Lo
The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry
w21242 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Ancestry, Language and Culture
w21198 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Bohdan Kukharskyy
Gerard Roland

Culture and Global Sourcing
w21169 Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar

Social Networks, Reputation and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment
w21117 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Gerard Roland

Culture, Institutions and Democratization
w21105 Roland Bénabou
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
w21079 Cemal Eren Arbatlı
Quamrul H. Ashraf
Oded Galor
Marc Klemp

Diversity and Conflict
w21069 Philippe Aghion
Ufuk Akcigit
Angus Deaton
Alexandra Roulet

Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing
w21052 Roland Bénabou
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

Religion and Innovation
w20989 Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Romain Wacziarg

Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity
w20967 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions
w20866 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs
2014
w20669 Attila Ambrus
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Matt Elliott

Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality
w20557 Naci Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova

Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
w20513 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization
w20440 William Goetzmann
Elena Mamonova
Christophe Spaenjers

The Economics of Aesthetics and Three Centuries of Art Price Records
w20438 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak

The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
w20422 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
w20403 Leonardo Bursztyn
Davide Cantoni

A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
w20369 Daron Acemoglu
Matthew O. Jackson

Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws
hung13-1 Daniel Hungerman and Daniel L. Chen
editors

Economics of Religion and Culture
w20309 Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Horacio Larreguy

Social Structure and Institutional Design: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
w20276 Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Matthew O. Jackson

Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models
w20259 Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Cynthia Kinnan
Horacio Larreguy

Social Networks as Contract Enforcement: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
w20174 Francesco Giavazzi
Ivan Petkov
Fabio Schiantarelli

Culture: Persistence and Evolution
w20158 Charles Yuji Horioka
Are Americans and Indians More Altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans
w20059 Naci H. Mocan
Christian Raschke

Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
w19894 Daron Acemoglu
Ufuk Akcigit
Murat Alp Celik

Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
w19862 Philip J. Cook
Kenneth Dodge
George Farkas
Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Susan Mayer
Harold Pollack
Laurence Steinberg

The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago
w19855 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang
Jinwen Xu

How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries
w19809 Kathy Fogel
Liping Ma
Randall Morck

Powerful Independent Directors
2013
w19769 Resul Cesur
Naci H. Mocan

Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
w19768 Filipe R. Campante
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott

Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
w19750 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Culture and Institutions
w19615 Elaine M. Liu
Juanjuan Meng
Joseph Tao-yi Wang

Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
w19610 Claudia Olivetti
Eleonora Patacchini
Yves Zenou

Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
w19557 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

The Value of Corporate Culture
w19495 Rebekka Christopoulou
Dean R. Lillard

Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
w19304 Rebekka Christopoulou
Ahmed Jaber
Dean R. Lillard

The Inter-generational and Social Transmission of Cultural Traits: Theory and Evidence from Smoking Behavior
w19225 Jason Fletcher
Sanjeev Kumar

Religion and Risky Health Behaviors among U.S. Adolescents and Adults
w19212 Lawrence E. Blume
William A. Brock
Steven N. Durlauf
Rajshri Jayaraman

Linear Social Interactions Models
w19209 Thomas P. Triebs
Justin Tumlinson

Learning to Forecast the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification
w19203 Saumitra Jha
"Unfinished Business": Ethnic Complementarities and the Political Contagion of Peace and Conflict in Gujarat
w19201 Shanker Satyanath
Nico Voigtlaender
Hans-Joachim Voth

Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
w19196 David Atkin
The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants
w19169 Angela K. Dills
Rey Hernández-Julián

Religiosity and State Welfare
w19133 Ajay K. Agrawal
Christian Catalini
Avi Goldfarb

Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
w19045 Leah Platt Boustan
Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
w19036 Rebekka Christopoulou
Dean R. Lillard

Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
w18966 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Family Ties
w18932 Grant Miller
Kimberly Singer Babiarz

Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs
w18813 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
w18805 John Cawley
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder

The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control
w18786 Adnan Q. Khan
Steven F. Lehrer

The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Cape Breton
w18674 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro
Erin Troland

Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
w18744 Massimo Anelli
Giovanni Peri

Peer Gender Composition and Choice of College Major
w18738 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
w18728 Roger Gordon
Gordon B. Dahl

Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?
w18722 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
2012
w18641 Ned Augenblick
Jesse M. Cunha
Ernesto Dal Bó
Justin M. Rao

The Economics of Faith: Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field
w18509 Jeffrey V. Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

Trust and Cheating
w18460 Jeffrey Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

Trust, Values and False Consensus
w18438 Stelios Michalopoulos
Alireza Naghavi
Giovanni Prarolo

Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
w18417 Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz

Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
w18359 Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
Consumer Inertia and Firm Pricing in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Insurance Exchange
w18350 Eli Berman
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Giuseppe Ragusa

From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
w18275 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa
w18224 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
w18080 Edward Kutsoati
Randall Morck

Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Ghana
w17743 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson

The Diffusion of Microfinance
2011
w17620 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
w17589 Daniel M. Hungerman
Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal
w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms
w17572 Ruben Durante
Giovanna Labartino
Roberto Perotti

Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia
w17527 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer

Teaching Practices and Social Capital
w17508 Raquel Fernández
Joyce Cheng Wong

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
w17375 Daniel M. Hungerman
Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
w17216 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
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