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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136354
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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded - 2011
This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124844
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The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers
Chu, C. Y. Cyrus - 2008
At each age an organism produces energy by foraging and allocates this energy among reproduction, survival, growth, and intergenerational transfers. We characterize the optimal set of allocation decisions that maximizes reproductive fitness. Time preference (the discount rate) is derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770874
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Culture : Persistence and Evolution
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2014
This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053157
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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence
Erdem, Erkan; Tybout, James - 2021
Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213407
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David K. - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079202
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Optimal Distribution and Taxation of the Family
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135144
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Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers
McGarry, Kathleen M. - 2012
behavior. I find substantial change across periods in recipiency, large differences across children within the family, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099538
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Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities : Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources
Gelber, Alexander - 2012
Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101515
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Family Bonding with Universities
Meer, Jonathan - 2009
family members have the most important effect upon donative behavior. We find that the effects of attendance by members of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154972