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Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents

Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...

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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...

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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

punish norm violations that hurt members of their own caste, suggesting a cultural difference across caste status in the … hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals' willingness to punish violations of a cooperation norm. Although we control … for individual wealth, education, and political participation, low caste individuals exhibit a much lower willingness to …

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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers

Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration of the benefits in subgroups of the population is unknown. In this paper, the question of differential welfare impacts, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is...

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Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap

Gradín, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

access to high-quality education and the persistence of discrimination against colored workers in the labor market. …

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Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States

Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...

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The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion. The empirical application relies on indices introduced...

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