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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a …
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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010
Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent …
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Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Altruistic or Commercial ?
Banerjee, Swapnendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
always optimal irrespective of altruism, outside option and social ignominy. …
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and … inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, within-village extended family networks in 504 poor … rural villages are constructed. Family networks are larger (both in the number of members and as a share of the village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries
Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India. It enumerates the salient achievements and the problems faced by the state in providing concrete social security measures for fishworkers. They were a section of Kerala society...
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