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undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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In today’s changing world the business environment is changing rapidly. The emergence of e-commerce and development of information and technology plays a significant role in the nature of work as well as their attitude towards the organization. We have been experiencing a tremendous growth in...
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This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
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In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses … amount of income redistribution as a share of disposable income. Here, we estimate marginal willingness-to-pay values for … types of recipients (old-age pensioners, people with ill health, the unemployed, working poor, and families with children …
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Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.
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ethnic politics in Karachi. The disparities in income, employment and social status have been compared between the nine …
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parents to have fewer but better educated children, which may foster economic development. Second, government should sometimes …
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associations between social status and income. This paper focuses on the supply of status and tests the underlying assumption by …'s GDP per capita and its FIFA rank, which suggests that income is related to these "status" fixed effects through some … caution though that income is not an exclusive driver of status, as ability, age, game outcome and race also matter. …
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We integrate a social norm which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater weight of cultural values on stock of accumulated capital as opposed to consumption will experience fast growth....
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income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …
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