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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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mittelbar, über das erreichte Bildungsniveau, das Einkommen eines Menschen bestimmt. Die Bildung eines Individuums hängt dabei … Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und ökonometrischer Konzepte wird für die Jahre 2001 und 2005 für die … Hintergrunds über kulturelles und soziales Kapital auf das Einkommen herausarbeitet. Es zeigt sich, dass der soziale Hintergrund …
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This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...
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This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1. Low physical and social attractiveness as well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners...
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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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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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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 …
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