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Fairness spillovers : the case of taxation

Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - 2010

It is standardly assumed that individuals adjust to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other...

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That elusive elasticity : a long-panel approach to estimating the capital-labor substitution elasticity : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Chirinko, Robert S.; Fazzari, Steven M.; Meyer, Andrew P. - 2004

The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research. However, a consensus estimate remains elusive. We develop an estimation strategy that filters panel data in an original way and avoids several pitfalls - difficult-to-specify...

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

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Unequal bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?

Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises …

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D …

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Parental and student time use around the academic year

Cowan, Benjamin; Jones, Todd R.; Swigert, Jeffrey - 2023

school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …

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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2004

Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...

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Social norms and welfare state dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...

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