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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty
Bjerk, David - 2009
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902147
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551917
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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517740
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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the lab
Falk, Armin (contributor); Fischbacher, Urs (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002482525
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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities
Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019
Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...
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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor);  … - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737645
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Kinky choices, dictators and split might : a non-cooperative model for household consumption and labor supply
Boone, Jan; Wiel, Karen van der; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2009
It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872703
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Comparative statics for a consumer with possibly multiple optimum consumption bundles
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - 2010
in the standard revealed preference theory of consumers’ behaviour. These results are however derived for demand … preference approach to the theory of consumers' behaviour, this note establishes such results for demand correspondences; the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942309
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Are children "normal"?
Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sanders, Seth; … - 2011
We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated...
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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …
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