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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371463
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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth
Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504686
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Equity Aversion
Fershtman, Chaim; Gneezy, Uri; List, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Models of inequity aversion and fairness have dominated the behavioural economics landscape in the last decade. This study gathers data from 240 subjects exposed to variants of two of the major experimental games - dictator and trust - that are employed to provide important empirical content to...
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Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Demonsant, Jean-Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …. Since formally educated children tend not to return, the ruling caste seeks to develop family loyalty by choosing religious …. Children from the ruling caste who are sent abroad have a lower probability of being sent to formal school. They are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925714
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Risk, inequality and time in the welfare economics of climate change: is the workhorse model underspecified?
Hepburn, Cameron; Hakon Sælen; Atkinson, Giles - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
climate change economics, by surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, time, and income inequality.  The results …
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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Returns to Education across Europe
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Incentives to invest in higher education are affected by both the direct wage effect of human capital investments and the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher educated. We analyse the returns to education in...
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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited
Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full...
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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662384
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Employer Learning And The Returns To Schooling
Bauer, Thomas; Haisken-DeNew, John P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labour market experience and increase with initially...
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