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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 …

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Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv; Stafford, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes the effects of the price and availability of subsidized child care on labor force participation, using data from a Swedish household survey for 1984 in combination with data on...

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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Proposal For a Partial Transition to a Funded System

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

It is shown that the net fiscal externality created by an additional member of a pay-as-you-go-pension system that is endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions of this member. In Germany, this equals about 175,000 Deutsche marks. The paper uses this information to design a...

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Purchased Child Care, Optimal Family Size and Mother's Employment

Ermisch, John F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

The paper develops a model of family size decisions in which couples choose explicitly a combination of mother's time … and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies …

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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...

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Social Identity and Preferences over Redistribution

Klor, Esteban F; Shayo, Moses - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We design an experiment to study the effects of social identity on preferences over redistribution. The experiment highlights the trade-off between social identity concerns and maximization of monetary payoffs. Subjects belonging to two distinct natural groups are randomly assigned gross incomes...

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A Caseworker Like Me - Does the Similarity between unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters … higher number of siblings has a negative effect in general, holding birth order constant, except when parents belong to the … highest occupational groups; in other words, it is good to have many brothers and sisters if one's parents are well-to-do (the …

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The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...

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Leaving Home and Living Alone: An Historical Perspective

Wall, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper provides a historical and geographical perspective on the composition of households in present-day Europe. Many more people today live on their own than was the case in pre-industrial England, but there are some surprising continuities in household composition. In particular,...

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