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Other Special Topics: Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology


2012
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

w17180 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

w17113 Nico Voigtlaender
Hans-Joachim Voth

Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

w17066 Daron Acemoglu
Matthew O. Jackson

History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

w17022 Romney B. Duffey
The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures

w16973 Daniel M. Hungerman
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w16923 Laura Bottazzi
Marco Da Rin
Thomas F. Hellmann

The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

w16838 Daniel Treisman
The Geography of Fear

w16820 Ajay K. Agrawal
Christian Catalini
Avi Goldfarb

The Geography of Crowdfunding

w16769 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Saints Marching In, 1590-2009


2010
w16637 Michael McBride
Gary Richardson

Stopping Suicide Attacks: Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

w16518 Scott E. Carrell
Mark Hoekstra
James E. West

Is Poor Fitness Contagious? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Friends

w16512 Alberto Bisin
Thierry Verdier

The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

w16465 Alberto Bisin
Eleonora Patacchini
Thierry Verdier
Yves Zenou

Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

w16340 Vikas Mehrotra
Randall Morck
Jungwook Shim
Yupana Wiwattanakantang

Must Love Kill the Family Firm?

w16277 Raquel Fernández
Does Culture Matter?

w16024 David W. Galenson
Understanding Creativity

w15930 David W. Galenson
Innovators: Filmmakers

w15925 Daniel J. Benjamin
James J. Choi
Geoffrey W. Fisher

Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

w15838 David Galenson
Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences: Answers and Questions

w15776 Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity


2009
w15502 William N. Goetzmann
Luc Renneboog
Christophe Spaenjers

Art and Money

w15417 Francesco Giavazzi
Fabio Schiantarelli
Michel Serafinelli

Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

w15415 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Family Ties and Political Participation

w15391 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Kevin Milligan

O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada

w15344 Jeffrey Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso

The Right Amount of Trust

w15321 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo

Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

w15278 David Galenson
The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

w15271 Angus S. Deaton
Aging, religion, and health

w15182 Miles S. Kimball
Colter M. Mitchell
Arland D. Thornton
Linda C. Young-Demarco

Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity

w15073 David Galenson
Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

w15069 William Easterly
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point

w14858 Randall Morck
The Riddle of the Great Pyramids

w14764 Roland Bénabou
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets


2008
w14508 Ernesto Dal Bó
Marko Terviö

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing

w14268 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Monica Singhal

Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

w14053 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w14004 Gary Richardson
Michael McBride

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.

w13968 Edward Miguel
Sebastián M. Saiegh
Shanker Satyanath

National Cultures and Soccer Violence

w13907 Roland Bénabou
Ideology

w13793 Christopher Ruebeck
Susan Averett
Howard Bodenhorn

Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

w13743 Henry Saffer
Karine Lamiraud

The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction

w13738 Marianne Bertrand
Simon Johnson
Krislert Samphantharak
Antoinette Schoar

Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model


2007
w13689 Robert J. Barro
Jason Hwang

Religious Conversion in 40 Countries

w13446 Raymond Fisman
Shang-Jin Wei

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques

w13387 Paola Sapienza
Anna Toldra
Luigi Zingales

Understanding Trust

w13373 Raquel Fernandez
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

w13369 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Joshua Mitchell

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

w13348 Daniel M. Hungerman
Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

w13323 Daniel M. Hungerman
Race and Charitable Church Activity

w13309 Daniel J. Benjamin
James J. Choi
A. Joshua Strickland

Social Identity and Preferences

w12888 Raquel Fernandez
Women, Work, and Culture

w12823 Ajay Agrawal
Devesh Kapur
John McHale

Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors


2006
w12812 Ajay K. Agrawal
Avi Goldfarb

Restructuring Research: Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation

w12700 Cyrus C. M. Mody
Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000

w12686 Li Gan
Lixin Colin Xu
Yang Yao

Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China

w12669 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby
Jonathan Furner
Robert C. Liu
Hongyan Ma

Minerva Unbound: Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

w12655 Midori Wakabayashi
Charles Y. Horioka

Is the Eldest Son Different? The Residential Choice of Siblings in Japan

w12561 Benjamin A. Olken
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

w12464 Kevin Lang
Erez Siniver

The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

w12312 Raymond Fisman
Edward Miguel

Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets

w12305 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?

w12238 Rachel M. McCleary
Robert J. Barro

U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations: Religious and Secular PVOs Engaged in International Relief & Development

w12125 Francesco Caselli
Wilbur John Coleman II

On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict

w11999 Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Guiso

Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?


2005
w11890 James E. Rauch
Vitor Trindade

Neckties in the Tropics: A Model of International Trade and Cultural Diversity

w11881 Henry Saffer
The Demand for Social Interaction

w11825 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps

w11807 John Helliwell
Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?

w11759 John F. Heliwell
Haifang Huang

How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

w11740 Eli Berman
David Laitin

Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks

w11663 Eli Berman
Laurence R. Iannaccone

Religious Extremism: The Good, The Bad, and The Deadly

w11576 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

w11569 Raquel Fernández
Alessandra Fogli

Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

w11535 Roland Bénabou
Jean Tirole

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

w11282 Marie Connolly
Alan B. Krueger

Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

w11268 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli

Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

w11258 Federico Echenique
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

On the Measurement of Segregation


2004
w11013 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

w10835 Edward L. Glaeser
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
Jesse M. Shapiro

Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values

w10589 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli
Claudia Olivetti

Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII

w10438 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Which Countries Have State Religions?

w10425 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home


2003
w10147 Robert Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

International Determinants of Religiosity

w9826 Helen Levy
Thomas DeLeire

What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?


2002
w9041 Kerwin Charles
Patrick Kline

Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling


2001
w8627 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

w8295 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998


2000
w8016 Daniel S. Hamermesh
12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing

w7896 Mary Kay Gugerty
Michael Kremer

Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?


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