Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

By Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations (2017, unknown): “Doepke and Zilibotti (2008) developed a model to explain the cultural transmission of the values of the preindustrial middle class (thriftiness, hard work) in the industrialization process.”
Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany (2012, unknown): “…Spanish expulsion of 1492. at U niversity of C hicago L ibrary on M ay 10, 2016 http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from therefore compare medieval outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence with similar acts committed in the same location more than half a millennium later, between 1920 and 1945.”
Culture and Institutions (2015, unknown): “Doepke and Zilibotti (2008) define a “middle class” belief using the work-versus-luck variable as well as a variable regarding the”
Culture: persistence and evolution (2014, unknown): “56) with the measure of residential segregation used in Borjas 1995.(32) Although our model is silent on this issue, as it does not include a residential choice, this is what one would expect since a neighborhood characterized by a high concentration of individuals from the same ancestry is likely t”
Perceived Self-Efficacy, Poverty, and Economic Development (2017, methodology): “Such a model could resemble the models of Doepke & Zilibotti (2008) on how parents decide how to raise their children and may also include stereotypes and identity, which have been empirically proven to be interesting (Aronson et al. 1999, Hoff & Stiglitz 2016, Steele & Aronson 1995).”
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission (2017, methodology): “…as an equilibrium outcome.39 Interactions between parental transmission of preferences and occupational choice are also central to the analyses of Doepke and Zilibotti (2005, 2008) and Corneo and Jeanne (2010), but in these papers parents are entirely altruistic, and alternative parenting styles…”
Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws (2017, unknown): “Third, our work is also related to several recent works modeling the evolution of culture, social norms, and cooperation, such as Acemoglu and Jackson (2013), Bisin and Verdier (2001), Doepke and Zilibotti (2008), Galor (2011), Tabellini (2008), and Voth and Voigtlander (2012).”