Search Results - subject:"Relative deprivation"

Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2021

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior....

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Turning relative deprivation into a performance incentive device

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2021

characterize each individual by his relative deprivation, which measures by how much the individual trails behind other individuals …) in order to maximize aggregate relative deprivation, so as to ensure that the incentive for the individuals to work or …

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An optimal split of school classes

Stark, Oded - 2021

by the index of relative deprivation, which measures the extent to which a student lags behind other students in the set … order to maximize aggregate relative deprivation, so that the incentive for the students to study harder because of …

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Privatized Keynesianism or conspicuous consumption? Status anxiety and the financialization of consumption in Chile

González, Felipe - 2017

developing countries: spurious upward mobility and relative deprivation. In both cases, families consume beyond their means in … Mechanismen zu erklären: erstens durch vorgetäuschte Aufwärtsmobilität und zweitens durch relative Deprivation. In beiden Fällen …

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