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Gould, Eric D; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines why developed countries are monogamous while rich men throughout history have tended to practice polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model...

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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D; Kaplan, Todd - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

, affected the performance of his teammates. In his autobiography, Canseco claims that he improved the productivity of his … baseball player produced a similar effect. Clearly, Jose Canseco had an unusual influence on the productivity of his peers … many workplaces where competitive pressures create incentives to adopt unethical means to boost productivity and profits. …

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Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Gould, Eric D; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their native peers, the empirical...

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Immigrating to Opportunity: Estimating the Effect of School Quality Using a Natural Experiment on Ethiopians in Israel

Gould, Eric D; Lavy, Victor; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In May 1991, 15,000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel in an overnight airlift and sorted in a haphazard and essentially random fashion to absorption centres across the country. This quasi-random assignment produced a natural experiment whereby the initial schooling environment of Ethiopian...

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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital using Parental Deaths

Gould, Eric D; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...

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