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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...

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New Firms---Different Jobs? An Inquiry into the Quality of Employment in Start-ups and Incumbents

Koch, Andreas; Spaeth, Jochen - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2009

entrepreneurship research analyses the employment effects of start-ups vs. incumbent firms, our knowledge about differences in these …

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality

Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001

This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...

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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data

Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998

Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese agriculture

Kiminami, Akira (ed.) - Farm Management Society of Japan / Annual Conference <2015>; … - 2019

Development in Japanese Agriculture from the Perspective of European Experience -- Chapter 6 Issues on Innovation in Japanese Farm … Business -- Chapter 7. Innovation by Young Generations in Farm Households -- Chapter 8. Women’s Advancement of Agriculture and … rural Society: Considerations on the Innovations by Women in Agriculture -- Chapter 9. The Role of Open Innovation and …

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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Marquez, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005

The target of this paper is to question the causes of software intellectual property rights violation. To solve this question, the author analyses how has evolved the economic literature of IPR violation showing that the traditional market variables do not fulfill the requirements to explain the...

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