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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278558
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001091
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Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey
Akar, Betul; Akyol, Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019
We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141195
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2011
education wedges in this setting analytically and numerically, using a calibrated example. We present ways to implement the … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … dependence of the labor wedges. Applying the model to US-data and a binary education decision (graduating from college or not) we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282325
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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
education wedges in this setting analytically and numerically, using a calibrated example. We present ways to implement the … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … dependence of the labor wedges. Applying the model to US-data and a binary education decision (graduating from college or not) we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359855
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Charitable bequests and wealth at death
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2012
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289929
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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Atkinson, Tony; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156473
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a dynamic, dynastic Mirrleesian model, we find that insurance against intergenerational ability risk...
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269121
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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269589