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Job matching, social network and word-of-mouth communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Education transmission and network formation

Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo Leone; Panebianco, … - 2021

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

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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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Child labor and the education of a society

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …

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