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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

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Uncommitted Couples: Some Efficiency and Policy Implications of Marital Bargaining

Aura, Saku - EconWPA - 2003

This paper studies a married couple's dynamic investment and consumption choices under the assumption that the couple cannot commit across time not to renegotiate their decisions. The inefficiencies that can arise are characterized. Efficiency properties of different divorce asset- division...

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …

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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition

Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001

Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of the gap's elements they target; therefore, it is important to...

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SAVINGS MOBILIZATION ROLE OF NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS:AN ANALYTICAL POLICY STUDY

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HAS BEEN EMPHASISED AS THE MAJOR FACTOR GOVERING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE AIMS EXPLORING IN THE LIGHT OF PAST TRENDS, THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN...

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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma

Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002

Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...

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Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

Tipping is a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon that standard economic models find hard to explain. I discuss several aspects of tipping and divide tipping to six different categories: reward-tipping, price- tipping, tipping-in-advance, bribery-tipping, holiday-tipping and gift- tipping, and...

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Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making

Fryer, Roland G.; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

This paper introduces a psychological notion of categorization into economics and derives its implications for economic decision making. We show, using a tractable model of social cognition, that a decision maker in (efficiently) assigning past experiences to categories, will sort experiences of...

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Relative Thinking Theory

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article presents a theory that I denote “Relative Thinking Theory,” which claims that people consider relative differences and not only absolute differences when making various economics decisions, even in those cases where the rational model dictates that people should consider only...

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