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; and (ii) the effect of a housewife's schooling increases with the length of marriage, whereas the effect of a working wife …’s schooling does not change over the course of marriage. …
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The elevation of scarcity to the fundamental economic problem rests on some unstated normative assumptions. These include a political commitment to private property, a methodological commitment to not inquire about taste formation, and the idea that human welfare is roughly equivalent to...
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We develop two models of economic growth with exhaustible natural resources and consumers heterogeneous in time preferences. The first model assumes private ownership of natural resources. In the second model, natural resources are commonly owned and the resource extraction rate is chosen by...
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Science and rationality always excluded religion. However, in his last work, The Fatal Conceit, the great economist Friedrich von Hayek stated that religion has been one of the enduring pillars of the free market economy, through a consistent heritage of practices and beliefs. By making some...
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The present paper wishes to be an inventory of the historical-demographical writings within Romanian landscape. We were able to identify preoccupation for demographic phenomena even since late 19th century, that have grown once with the creation of a discipline of historical demography in the...
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In the latter half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in north-western Transylvania there was a traditional rural society, except for some urban centres and their neighbouring areas (the urban character is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The village...
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agriculture. As a consequence, when speaking about the socio-professional determinism in choosing a marriage partner, we have to … better socio-professional options, their determinism on marriage could be identified as highly important. How can we … determine the way in which the socio-professional element influenced marriage? To what extent a young man with a superior social …
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Mixed marriage is one of the factors providing the link between interethnic and interreligious communities. Ethnic and … these communities were living together, it was natural that this “cooperation” should be visible in the case of marriage … and promoted a new perception of mixed marriage through a lay legislation. On the other hand, in the mixed Greek …
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assumed by man. The woman has authority on household. Yet she has internal control only when the mother-in-law and generally … France, for instance, the young wife has to be an “apprentice” for a year by her mother-in-law or another woman, if the … former is absent. Man’s authority is granted by civil and religious law, by family and community and especially by socio …
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Birth will be approached from both regional analysis and family perspectives. In the latter case, a complex survey reconstructing family in two sample villages in the survey will show specific aspects of birth. The aims and objectives of our analysis are to establish besides birth rate the...
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