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Aftershocks : The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services
Jacobson, Mireille - 2010
Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers' decisions to perform abortions and...
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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
Di Tella, Rafael - 2011
We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the US over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic opportunities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121076
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Exporting Christianity : Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of Us Denominations
Hanson, Gordon - 2011
In this paper we build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. We treat denominations akin to multinational enterprises, which decide which countries to enter based on local market...
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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola - 2009
for nonlinear time-period, life-cycle, and cohort effects, as well as a host of background variables. Second, we rely on … data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 to corroborate the age-period-cohort …
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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
Akerlof, George - 2017
This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates for promotion with similar beliefs, just as beetles are more prone to eat the eggs of other species. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may...
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci H. - 2014
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
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Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China
Mocan, Naci H. - 2017
In Chinese culture those who are born in the year of the Dragon under the zodiac calendar are believed to be destined for good fortune and greatness, and parents prefer their kids to be born in a Dragon year. Using provincial level panel data, we first show that the number of marriages goes up...
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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In … biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130254
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The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates
Lee, Jin Young - 2011
Following an influential article by Friedberg (1998), Wolfers (2006) explored the sensitivity of Friedberg's results to allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the sensitivity of Wolfers's results to variations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130265
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Women's Education and Family Behavior : Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam - 2011
women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …
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