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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that …
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, particularly when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The … "community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material … expressive law, determining in particular when a weakening or a strengthening of incentives is called for. Pushing further this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884154
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the...
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …
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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886135