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An economic perspective on religious education : complements and substitutes in a human capital portfolio

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman (contributor) - 2005

This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of … religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative externalities between religious and secular … education. Applications include the tension between science and religion during the European Enlightenment and the development …

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Laws and norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban

Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022

Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...

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