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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios

Chang, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty years. This paper empirically investigates the effect of sex ratios, i.e. relative number of men to...

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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health

Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household...

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Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …

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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries

Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...

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Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya

Chicoine, Luke E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in …

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …

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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

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