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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020

for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite. We show in a simple model of parental investment that gender … preferences can explain our findings. Analyses exploiting within the province, village-level variation in gender attitudes confirm … the importance of parental gender preferences. Consequently, large scale programs can have positive (and possibly …

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The price of a price : on the crowding out of social norms

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Mendys, Ewa - 2001

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2005

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Social identity strategies in recent economics

Davis, John B. - 2005

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Exploitation and cooperation in networks

Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2004

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Endogenous effort norms in hierarchical firms

Tichem, Jan - 2013

This paper studies how a three-layer hierarchical firm (principal-supervisor-agent) optimally creates effort norms for its employees. The key assumption is that effort norms are affected by the example of superiors. In equilibrium, norms are eroded as one moves down the hierarchy. The reason is...

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From tradition to modernity : economic growth in a small world

Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012

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Diffusion of a social norm : tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812 - 1922

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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...

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