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Image versus information : changing societal norms and optimal privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Bénabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...

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Immigrants and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014

Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...

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Analyzing the perceptions of Egyptian youth about the Arab Spring

Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2019

Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of young Egyptians about the AS. The empirical analysis uses a bivariate ordered probit model to...

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Why are saving rates so high in China?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - 2011

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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Millet, rice, and isolation : origins and persistence of the world’s most enduring mega-state

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2022

each other, set off a race between their autochthonous state-building projects, which determines their extent and … developed into independent states, as agriculture provided the fertile ground for state-formation, while isolation provided time … reproducing a mega-state in the area that became China and on the determinants of its borders with other states. …

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International migration : driver of political and social change?

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016

This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....

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Coming out in America : AIDS, politics, and cultural change

Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar; Viarengo, Martina - 2019

individuals in low-AIDS states had experienced the same average AIDS rate as a high-AIDS state, the change in their approval rate …

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