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Divorce and gold coins : a case Study of Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2018 - This version: November 2017
The increasing divorce rate has become a major social concern for policy makers in the Islamic government of Iran. The … in Iran. Dowries (Mehrieh) are usually in the form of gold coin and a wife has a legal right to them upon both parties … and divorce rate for the case of Iran over the period 1980-2014. Controlling for other factors, our regression results …
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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...
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Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts : a cross-country analysis
Voigt, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study
D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008
We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
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The heterogeneous effect of digitizing community activities on community participation
Pocchiari, Martina; Roos, Jason M. T. - 2023
As social and business activities undergo significant digital transformation, the allure of digitized versus traditional in-person events remains a critical question. This study quantifies the heterogeneous effect of digitization on community participation across communities catering to...
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Scarring or scaring? : the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Rätzel, Steffen (contributor) - 2008
We reassess the "scarringʺ hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...
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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951557
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International income inequality : measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732283
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Residential mobility of the European elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798224