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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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A Theory of Child Adoption
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699970
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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959718
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence … the complementarity, firm's resources play an important role in the adoption of technology while advancing from single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307478
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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
Plug, Erik - 2002
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262243
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Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
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Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276955
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A theory of child adoption
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012
treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283945
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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287617