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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
and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is …
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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...
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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
education instead. The theory hence predicts that the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice …
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Trickle-Down Consumption
Bertrand, Marianne; Morse, Adair - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
with top income levels, consistent with status-maintaining explanations for our primary finding. Non-rich households …
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The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy … in which a worker’s status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion …
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