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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health : Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen - 2012

implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …

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Smoking and Social Interaction

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...

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Not in My Community : Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Bassanini, Andrea - 2015

We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel - 2018

Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than their husbands than would occur with random matching. The large...

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Going to School in Purdah : Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2012

This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non‐religious secondary …

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Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh : The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks

Bellani, Luna; Biswas, Kumar; Fehrler, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2023

About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET … goal in Bangladesh and other countries from the Global South. In this study, we analyze the social basis of support for … husbands regarding the role of females are a key obstacle to a higher labor force participation of young women in Bangladesh …

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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis

Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011

This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...

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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms

Huck, Steffen - 2010

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents' desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of team production we examine the...

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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Sliwka, Dirk - 2007

An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These quot;conformistsquot; have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too....

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