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localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
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This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
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The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of … many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health … to health shocks. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households' demand for financing …
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In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a "catalyst" for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …
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