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Guyanese remittance motivations : altruistic?
Depoo, Tilokie - In: International journal of social economics 41 (2014) 3, pp. 201-212
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Relevance of the regulatory state in North/South intersections
Findlay, Mark; Lim, Siwei - In: International journal of social economics 41 (2014) 7, pp. 542-555
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Effect of foreign aid on corruption : evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries
Masoud Rashid Mohamed; Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan; … - In: International journal of social economics 42 (2015) 1, pp. 47-63
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Moderate Fecundity and Long-Run Reproductive Success
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
a larger predisposition towards child quality, contributing to the onset of the demographic transition and the evolution …
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Evolution of Individual Preferences and Persistence of Family Rules
Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2019
preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059103
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262480
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Hedonic capital
Graham, Liam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2006
This paper proposes a new way to think about happiness. It distinguishes between stocks and flows. Central to the analysis is a concept we call 'hedonic capital'. The paper sets out a model of the dynamics of wellbeing in which bad life-shocks are smoothed by the drawing down of hedonic capital....
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658200
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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