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Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Unequal Bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes

Fernández, Raquel; Wong, Joyce Cheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...

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The Impact of Economics Blogs

McKenzie, David J.; Özler, Berk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a proliferation of economics blogs, with increasing numbers of economists attracting large numbers of readers, yet little is known about the impact of this new medium. Using a variety of experimental and non-experimental techniques, we try to quantify some of their effects. First, links...

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labour Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....

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Diversity in Organizations

Mello, Antonio S; Ruckes, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

groups depends on the leader's authority to make personnel decisions, especially whether the leader can replace team members …

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Optimal Information Management: Organizations versus Markets

Castanheira, Micael; Leppämäki, Mikko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

full authority over the agents, or they hand over this authority to an outside supplier by outsourcing these activities. By … incorporating authority in a stylized model of information processing, we endogenize the comparative advantage of each form of … authority is optimal. We also show which tasks should be outsourced to align the preferences of the outside supplier with those …

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Resource Allocation and Firm Scope

Friebel, Guido; Raith, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs...

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Why a Group Needs a Leader: Decision-making and Debate in Committees.

Dessein, Wouter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication …

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