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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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Vacancy Duration and Wages
Bassier, Ihsaan; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2023
We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveraging firm-level wage policies that are plausibly exogenous to hiring...
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Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
This paper argues, in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
, constructed from the World Values Survey, to review and extend the literature on the effect of family ties on economic behavior …
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Tausch, Arno - 2016
based on an empirical analysis of World Values Survey data. In recent economic theory, Carvalho (2013) maintained that … in the Muslim world are closely interrelated. Thus, it is imperative that Western Feminism develops solidarity with …
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Tausch, Arno - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … question is whether "modernization" without "spiritual values" in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the … economic growth in the current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based …
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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question : Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …
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Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values
Badaoui, Eliane - 2018
This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited...
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …
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