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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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Development versus Legacy: The Relative Role of Development and Historical Legacies in Achieving Gender Equality
Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - CESifo - 2013
Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that long lasting institutions like religion, legal traditions, and family practices, also matter. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877691
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766299
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris Van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - CESifo - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020094
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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our … theory. Primary earners in couples are more strongly self-selected with respect to their income than singles, a novel result …
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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact...
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Why is there a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877918