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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148290
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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
Bar-El, Ronen - 2010
generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization – across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique … socialization – within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious …-attendance and by rare-prayer), lending support to corollaries derived from the theory and simulations. The main conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141739
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade : The Role of Immigrant Income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136947
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Social Learning Along International Migrant Networks
Tian, Yuan - 2020
We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826234
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions : Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859783
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Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - 2021
This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which have noteworthy empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318189
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
Helsley, Robert W. - 2011
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...
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Directed Generosity and Network Formation : Network Dimension Matters
D'Exelle, Ben - 2010
We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135187
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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
Batista, Catia - 2018
What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911184
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Delinquent Networks
Ballester, Coralio - 2009
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763925