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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants
Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019
This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …
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Ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara Helena; Gaalen, Ruben van - 2014
This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for individual and parental background and neighbourhood conditions. Subsequently, the size of explained...
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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475191
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Life cycle saving and dissaving revisited across three-tiered income groups : starting hypotheses, refinement through literature review, and ideas for empirical testing
Holzmann, Robert; Ayuso, Mercedes; Alaminos, Estefanía; … - 2019
The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...
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When do nations tax? : the adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada
Feir, Donna; Jones, Maggie; Scoones, W. David - 2022
Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471481
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy (contributor); Guner, Nezih (contributor) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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Can policy interact with culture? : minimum wage and the quality of labor relations
Aghion, Philippe (contributor); Algan, Yann (contributor);  … - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
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Is crime contagious?
Ludwig, Jens (contributor); Kling, Jeffrey R. (contributor) - 2006
Understanding whether criminal behavior is "contagious" is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348538
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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