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Stereotypes upon abilities in domestic production and household behaviour
Sofer, Catherine; Thibout, Claire - HAL - 2011
The collective model assumes that decisions taken inside the family are Pareto optimal. However, empirical studies cast doubts upon the efficiency assumption, especially on the production side of household decision making. In this paper, we present a model of household behavior including a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635254
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Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and in the Laboratory
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009
There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788905
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Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009
There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large firms and in a conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792986
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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes: An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment
Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2007
The population of most developed societies is ‘graying'. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793278
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Environmental Policy and Growth in a Model with Endogenous Environmental Awareness
Constant, Karine; Davin, Marion - HAL - 2014
determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933820
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Child Income as an Insurance Mechanism. Consequences for the Health-Education Relationship
Bourlès, Renaud; Ventelou, Bruno; Woode, Maame Esi - HAL - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933825
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012
mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933827
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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - HAL - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933909
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Student loans: Liquidity constraint and higher education in South Africa
Gurgand, Marc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Mélonio, Thomas - HAL - 2011
Empirical evidence that access to higher education is constrained by credit availability is limited and usually … matched individual data from both a credit institution (Eduloan) and the Department of Education. Based on a regression … education by more than 20 percentage points in a population of student loan applicants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929086
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The century of education
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009
. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930177