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on Cultural Economics |
| By: | Bruno S. Frey; Lasse Steiner |
| Abstract: | The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity’s culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable, and where national financial resources, political control and technical knowledge for conservation are inadequate. Alternatives such as the market and reliance on national conservation list are more beneficial where the cultural and natural sites are already popular, markets work well, and where inclusion in the List does not raise the destruction potential by excessive tourism, and in times of war or by terrorists. |
| Keywords: | Global public good, world heritage, cultural certificates, monuments, UNESCO |
| JEL: | Z11 D6 F5 H87 |
| Date: | 2010–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zur:iewwpx:484&r=cul |
| By: | Fabio MARIANI (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Paris School of Economics and IZA, Bonn) |
| Abstract: | Virtue is modelled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a womanÕs chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and anthropological evidence, we find that the prevalence (and the value) of virginity, across societies and overtime, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender differences, social status and stratification, and overall economic development. |
| Keywords: | Mating;Marriage;Culturalvalues;Socialclasses;Gender |
| JEL: | D1 J12 Z13 |
| Date: | 2010–03–31 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ctl:louvir:2010012&r=cul |