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Willpower and Personal Rules
In: Journal of political economy, Volume 112, Issue 4, p. 848-886
ISSN: 1537-534X
Political Activism, Trust, and Coordination
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Inequality and Growth
Using two unifying models and an empirical exercise, this paper presents and extends the main theories linking income distribution and growth, as well as the relevant empirical evidence. The first model integrates the political economy and imperfect capital markets theories while the second is a growth version of the prisoner's dilemma. The economy's growth rate is shown to fall with interest groups' rent-seeking abilities, as well as with the gap between rich and poor. It is not income inequality per se that matters, however, but inequality in the relative distribution of earning and political power.
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On Inflation and Output with Costly Price Changes: A Simple Unifying Result
In: NBER Working Paper No. t0135
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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 4570
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Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
In: NBER Working Paper No. w22203
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Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 9947
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Tax and education policy in a heterogeneous agent economy: what levels of redistribution maximize growth and efficiency?
In: Discussion paper series 2446
In: International macroeconomics and public policy
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Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
In: NBER Working Paper No. w24798
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Religion and Innovation
In: American economic review, Volume 105, Issue 5, p. 346-351
ISSN: 1944-7981
In earlier work we identified a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states. In this paper we relate 11 indicators of individual openness to innovation (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, agency, imagination, and independence in children) to 5 measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We use five waves of the World Values Survey and control for sociodemographics, country and year fixed effects. Across the 52 regressions, greater religiosity is almost uniformly associated to less favorable views of innovation, with high significance.
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