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Impacts of Forced Marriages in Cambodia Under the Pol Pot Regime

Kogure, Katsuo - 2011

This paper investigates effects of forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime on educational investments for their children. Specifically, we focus on the difference in educational investments between the couples who faced different social environments under the Pol Pot regime. Using the complete...

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Impacts of forced marriages in Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime

Kogure, Katsuo - 2011

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Preference for young workers in mid-career recruiting using online ads for sales jobs: Evidence from Japan

Zvedelikova, Mirka - 2022

This study uses an original dataset of online mid-career job ads for full-time sales jobs collected from July 2018 to December 2019 to examine the use of explicit and implied age limits on job applicants and characteristics of companies that set them. Although Japanese law prohibits age...

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Does self-regulation of advertisement length improve consumer welfare?

Matsubae, Taisuke; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

In Japan, TV platforms regulate themselves as to the length of the advertisements they air. Using modified Hotelling …

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Testing the morale theory of nominal wage rigidity

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Ohtake, Fumio - 2004

workers' income satisfaction and work morale. This paper uses the current deflationary recession in Japan to estimate this …

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Do the elderly dissave in Japan?

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2004

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan. …

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Why are concavity conditions not satisfied in the cost function? The case of Japanese manufacturing firms during the bubble period

Ogawa, Kazuo - 2008

This paper examines empirically some of the reasons why Japanese manufacturing firms frequently fail to satisfy concavity conditions of the cost function. We focus on the 'bubble period' in the 1980s when land was in great demand for reasons related to both production and speculation, and land...

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Time discounting and smoking behavior under tax hikes

Kang, Myong-Il; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2010

By combining our broad panel survey of Japanese adults from 2005 to 2008 and actual cigarette tax data, we investigate how smoking behavior including responses to tax hikes depends on time discounting and its biases, such as hyperbolic discounting and the sign effect. Cigarette consumption...

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Does agency cost model explain business fluctuations in Japan? An empirical attempt to estimate agency cost by firm size

Ogawa, Kazuo; Uchiyama, Hirokuni - 2003

firms in Japan. …

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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada

Cadsby, C. Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001

We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a …

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