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studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal … effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of … education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to …
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This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …
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Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282126
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279256
studies, we have found the discount rate to decrease with education. We examine this correlation further by testing the causal … effect of education and exploit two different sources of its variation: school frequency across villages and the number of … education has a significant impact on their discount rate, similar in magnitude for both types of instruments and robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999928
compete with imperatives (general moral rules or precepts) as alternative modes of communication to persuade agents to behave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931630
, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is … preferences, and the latter by selecting cooperation-inducing rules. The existence of population groups recognizable by outward …
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This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280666
This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325420