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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2015

, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … important component of the first-year curriculum that varies between students involves a multi-term research paper in business …

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The choices of … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and … analysis, combining an informed principal with individually signaling agents, makes precise the notion of expressive law …

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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

, particularly when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The … "community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material … expressive law, determining in particular when a weakening or a strengthening of incentives is called for. Pushing further this …

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Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Lawson-Remer, Terra - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling those same resources. This one-dimensional...

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Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic Development

Chang, Ha-Joon - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

The volume Institutional Change and Economic Development fills some important gaps in our understanding of the relationship between institutional changes and economic development. It does so by developing new discourses on the 'technology of institution building' and by providing detailed case...

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Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence toward Informal Traders

Roever, Sally - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Rights-based Approach to Development: Lessons from the Right to Food Movement in India

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb; Vivek, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

In April 2001 the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) approached the Supreme Court of India arguing that the government has a duty to provide greater relief in the context of mass hunger. The litigation has now become the best known precedent on the right to food internationally. This...

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The Rule of Law, Legal Traditions, and Economic Growth in East Asia

Woo-Cumings, Meredith - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries

Deere, Carmen Diana; Doss, Cheryl R. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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