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The "mighty girl" effect : does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender roles?

Borrell-Porta, Mireia; Costa-Font, Joan; Philipp, Julia - 2018

Understanding the malleability of gender norms is crucial to address gender inequalities. We study the effect of parenting daughters on a gender role attitude relating to the traditional male breadwinner model: whether the husband should earn and the wife stay at home. We control for other...

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The complexity of economic policy : I. Restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Opinion copulas, homophily and multimodal marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … world, causes BCM to produce consensus which leaves us with the open problem of explaining the emergence and sustainance of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept …

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The emerging aversion to inequality : evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005

Grosfeld, Irena (contributor); … - 2008

This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self-reported attitudes. Using unusually long and frequent...

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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); … - 2007

Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...

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On gender gaps and self-fulfilling expectations : theory, policies and some empirical evidence

Rica, Sara de la (contributor); Dolado, Juan J. (contributor) - 2008

This paper considers a simple model of self-fulfilling expectations that leads to a multiple equilibrium of gender gaps in wages and participation rates. Rather than resorting to moral hazard problems related to unobservable effort, like in most of the related literature, our model fully relies...

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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...

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Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems : the case of the environment

Halla, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...

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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt

Barón, Juan D. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. Specifically, we investigate whether 18-year olds' views about social benefits and the drivers of...

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External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - 2009

Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular, notably within cross-country health studies. However, the validity of...

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