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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
Bartling, Björn - 2011
compete and that the effect of health on competitiveness differs with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly …
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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition
Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010
, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139040
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Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk-Taking Among Children, Teenagers, and College Students : Evidence from Jeopardy!
Jetter, Michael - 2017
Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how … (aged 13–17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940856
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Parental Time Investments in Children : The Role of Competition for University Places in the UK
Sevilla Sanz, Almudena - 2015
document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016320
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Distributional Effects of Competition : A Simulation Approach
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250767
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Gender Differences in Competition Emerge Early in Life
Sutter, Matthias - 2010
here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141695
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Heineck, Guido - 2010
Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137521
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
comparison income effect. In East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all. With data from the British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119018
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297