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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited … parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Factors Influencing the Performance of Indian and Chinese Software Firms
Nollen, Stanley; Siddharthan, N.S. - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170200
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Culture and Fertility Transition in India
Krishnan, Pramila - eSocialSciences - 2007
Examines the evidence for various explantions usually offered for the differences infertility behaviour across regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487746
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS … Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487837
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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].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945274
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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543088
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487857
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Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Altruistic or Commercial ?
Banerjee, Swapnendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
always optimal irrespective of altruism, outside option and social ignominy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699060
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a … be in the same income cluster. . …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969042
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily; McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - eSocialSciences - 2013
A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945224