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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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On the Origin of the Family
Francesconi, Marco; Ghiglino, Christian; Perry, Motty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550011
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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children … is not associated with significant loss of overall happiness. If children reduce feelings of being loved by the spouse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757342
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Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
Falk, Armin; Knell, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822641
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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128024
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility … are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline-level reduces …
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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566551
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015491
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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703466
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Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of the Italian Social Services
Mosca, Michele; Musella, Marco; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566426