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Household models: an historical perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...

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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008

In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...

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Food for fuel: The effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012

Many countries have adopted energy policies that promote biofuels as a substitute for gasoline in transportation. For instance, 40% of U.S. grain is now used for energy and this share is expected to rise significantly under the current Renewable Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the...

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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?

Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2011

The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...

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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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Surfing alone? The Internet and social capital: evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One identification...

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Political socialization in flux? Linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...

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Vaccination Decisions and Social Capital in Japan

Okubo, Toshihiro; Noy, Ilan - 2024

. Social capital, in this context, refers to community trust, collaboration, and engagement that create social bonds between … community members, trust in the willingness of community members to engage in reciprocal assistance, and trust in the more … general willingness of the community to support individuals, were all associated differently with the vaccination decision …

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Online Versus Offline: Which Networks Spur Protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....

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