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Intergenerational Earnings Links: Sons and Daughters.
Lillard, L.A.; Kilburn, M.R. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1995
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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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Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam
Barnes, Douglas F.; Nguyen Huu Minh; Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009
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Chancengerechtigkeit und Entwicklung
2006 - 1. Aufl., Sonderausg.
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656285
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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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Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism
Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is contro-versial, both due to the conditions through which it is justifed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...
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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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