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Does forced solidarity hamper investment in small and micro enterprises?

Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Lay, Jann - 2013

solidarity ; informal insurance ; investment ; micro and small enterprises ; sharing ; Sub-Saharan Africa …

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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses

Teulings, Coen N. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The economics of assisted reproduction

Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005

Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...

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Laws and norms

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

, particularly when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The … "community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material … expressive law, determining in particular when a weakening or a strengthening of incentives is called for. Pushing further this …

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Why is child labor illegal?

Dessy, Sylvain Eloi (contributor); Knowles, John (contributor) - 2007

"We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is …

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Homo moralis : personal characteristics, institutions, and moral decision-making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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Where to look for the morals in markets?

Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016

Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...

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Facing yourself : a note on self-image

Falk, Armin - 2017

Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...

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A soul's view of the optimal population problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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On the post-enlightenment evolution of moral universalism

Jetter, Michael - 2024

Is humanity's circle of moral concern expanding, as often claimed? I explore frequencies of morally universal language in 15m book publications in American English, British English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian from 1800-2000. In each language, morally universal terminology diminished...

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