This paper examines the impact of corporate diversification and firm size on the value creation over the 1997-2005 period for twenty-five non-banking firms listed on Tunis Stock Exchange. Our results confirm previous studies in that shares of diversified firms sell at a discount. Moreover, value...

This paper examines the impact of corporate diversification and firm size on the value creation over the 1997-2005 period for twenty-five non-banking firms listed on Tunis Stock Exchange. Our results confirm previous studies in that shares of diversified firms sell at a discount. Moreover, value...

In many arranged marriage contexts, a mediator assists the bride and the groom's families in determining the actual amount of the dowry. Although social scientists in general and economists in particular have studied many aspects of dowries, to the best of our knowledge, the nature of the...

A key component of Poverty Reduction Strategies in developing countries consists in assessing the needs of the population in terms of access to basic services such as education, health care, and basic infrastructure. Using Demographic and Health Surveys from 40 countries, this note shows that...

We apply the a nonparametric method of kernel regression on a dataset for 109 countries to estimate the income fertility nexus in demo-economic transition. The results suggest the existence of a critical level of per capita income above which fertility decreases exponentially with rising income....

Marital status could be potentially correlated with women's labor force participation through unobservable factors. Using micro-data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper exploits exogenous variations in marriage caused by the Chinese Zodiac to estimate the causal effect of marital...

This paper studies new mechanisms through which human capital and longevity interact with child labour and endogenous fertility. When children provide old age support in the form of care and companionship, the economy may display multiple development regimes: a development trap with low human...

We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...

The nexus between infant mortality decline and fertility decline has been the subject matter of several theoretical and empirical investigations. However, this relationship still remains an open question, as the literature provides only mixed empirical evidence. We investigate this relationship...

Using unique data from a large-scale online survey conducted in Germany, we examine gender differences in volunteering for charitable organisations. Our findings suggest that men are more likely than women to engage in regular volunteer activities. Additionally, we find that men devote more time...