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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920869
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100274
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108093
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
Sutter, Matthias - 2015
from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013093
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützle, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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