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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
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This paper explored the origins of observed differences in time preference across countries and regions and found that pre-industrial agro-climatic characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment triggered selection, adaptation and learning processes that generated a persistent positive effect on the prevalence of long-term orientation in the contemporary era.Abstract:
This research explores the origins of observed differences in time preference across countries and regions Exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of suitable crops for cultivation in the course of the Columbian Exchange, the research establishes that pre-industrial agro-climatic characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, triggered selection, adaptation and learning processes that generated a persistent positive effect on the prevalence of long-term orientation in the contemporary era Furthermore, the research establishes that these agro-climatic characteristics have had a culturally embodied impact on economic behavior such as technological adoption, education, saving, and smokingread more
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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences
TL;DR: The Global Preference Survey (GPS) as discussed by the authors ) is an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries.
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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
TL;DR: The authors developed a theory of intergenerational transmission of preferences that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967), which is consistent with the decline of authoritarian parenting observed in industrialized countries, and with the greater prevalence of more permissive parenting in countries characterized by low inequality.
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The Standard Errors of Persistence
TL;DR: In this article, a large literature on persistence finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past, and the purpose of this paper is to examine whether these two properties might be connected, and find that even for modest ranges of spatial correlation between points, t statistics become severely inflated leading to significance levels that are in error by several orders of magnitude.
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In Crisis, We Pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 Pandemic
TL;DR: Religiousiosity has risen globally due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic with potential direct long-term consequences for various socio-economic outcomes.
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Civic honesty around the globe
TL;DR: The trade-off between honesty and self-interest is examined using field experiments in 355 cities spanning 40 countries around the globe and it is found that in virtually all countries, citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money.
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