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Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being
Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
Who records the largest drops in life satisfaction when they move into unemployment? Do men experience a larger drop in … unemployment is larger for women than men. The impact of unemployment on life satisfaction is large compared to the drops in life … satisfaction associated with changes in income and disability status. It is found that unemployment is less painful for men in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032810
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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491720
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers to educate their sons. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history. First, the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136751
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788962
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Taboos: Considering the Unthinkable
Fershtman, Chaim; Gneezy, Uri; Hoffman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
A taboo is an "unthinkable" action, that is, even the thought of violating it triggers social punishment. Taboos are the social "thought police," discouraging individuals from considering certain type of actions. We consider a simple model in which taboos are part of the definition of one's...
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...
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Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education and labor-market...
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Social Interactions and the Labor Market
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
implications showing how these models can explain why ethnic minorities tend to experience higher unemployment rate than workers …
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How Well Do Individuals Predict Their Future Life Satisfaction? Rationality and Learning Following a Nationwide Exogenous Shock
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003
Over recent years a number of papers have uses individual or household longitudinal survey data to investigate the rationality of income expectations. In this paper we provide a novel contribution to this literature by examining the ability of individuals to correctly predict their own future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977285
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136466