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The Right Amount of Trust
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Butler,   Jeffrey; Giuliano,   Paola; Guiso,   Luigi.
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate beliefs about others from their own levels of trustworthiness, could generate this non-monotonic relationship: highly trustworthy individuals tend to form overly optimistic beliefs, to assume too much social risk and to be cheated more often, ultimately performing less well than those with a belief close to the mean trustworthiness of the population. On the other hand, less trustworthy individuals form overly pessimistic beliefs and avoid being cheated, but give up...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Trust; Trustworthiness; Economic Performance; Culture; False Consensus; Labor and Human Capital; A1; A12; D1; O15; Z1.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90947

Household Resources Allocation, Gender, and Economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Senegal, West Africa
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ndoye Niane,   Aifa Fatimata.
This paper has examined Pareto efficiency of household resources allocation and the appropriateness to use gender-specific models rather than unitary model while investigating economic performance of men and women managers of separate plots within horticultural households in Senegal, West Africa. This paper contributes to the gender and economics literature providing empirical evidence of intrahousehold resources allocation in a specific social, economic and cultural context in which polygamy occurs and where husband and wives manage separately their plots. The findings confirm the suitability of gender-specific models to shed light on the gender differential of performance. As the subject matter is efficiency, as well in econometric as in economic point...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Household Resources Allocation; Gender; Economic Performance; Horticulture; Senegal; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; D2.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50902

Cultural Diversity and Economic Performance: Evidence from European Regions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bellini,   Elena; Ottaviano,   Gianmarco I.P.; Pinelli,   Dino; Prarolo,   Giovanni.
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). In so doing, we follow the empirical methodology developed by Ottaviano and Peri (2006a) in the case of US cities. The main idea is that, as cultural diversity may affect both production and consumption through positive or negative externalities, the joint estimation of price and income equations is needed to identify the dominant effect. Based on this methodology, we find that diversity is positively correlated with productivity. Moreover, we find evidence...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Cultural Diversity; Economic Performance; Productivity; Europe; Community/Rural/Urban Development; O5; O11; O57; R5; R58.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54171