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This paper argues that spacing between consecutive births is an important aspect of competition among siblings for survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources invested in children (which in turn affect child...
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There are significant gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states though very few studies explain this gender difference. Unlike most existing studies we take account of the implicit and explicit opportunity costs of schooling and use a bivariate probit model to jointly determine...
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Begriffe Ethik und Rating definiert. Anschließend wird ein ethisches Rating entworfen, das anhand von konkreten Kriterien eine …
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This paper contributes to the growing literature on happiness research by examining whether happiness affects the ethical decisions of individuals. First, a recursive model of ethical decision making is developed in which an agent's utility is assumed to be a function of money, ethical...
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’ expectations with regard to ethics are little understood by professionals. This study leads to a better understanding of the …
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undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to …
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principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has …
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Teaching economics has been shown to encourage students to defect in a prisoner's dilemma game. However, can ethics … training reverse that effect and promote cooperation? We conducted an experiment to answer this question. We found that … students who had the ethics module had higher rates of cooperation than students without the ethics module, even after …
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Laboratory subjects repeatedly played one of two variations of a simple two-person zero-sum game of ``hide and seek.'' Three puzzling departures from the prescriptions of equilibrium theory are found in the data: an asymmetry related to the player's role in the game; an asymmetry across the game...
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We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the …
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