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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Tausch, Arno - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155538
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009
benefits fraud and taking bribes. This re-discovery of the “active society paradigm,” inherent in Etzioni’s sociological theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203179
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto - 2015
partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict …
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment : Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320574
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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development
Corneo, Giacomo - 2007
Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777026
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063592
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Identity-Driven Cooperation Versus Competition
Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive interaction between individual economic decisions and social identities in response to technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999033
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Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2022
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
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