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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence From the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2010
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was … children's preferences in response to economic incentives. This results in the stratification of society along occupational …
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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection … between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production … Revolution. We argue that structural transformation alters the distribution of power in society and enables groups with distinct …
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Do Acquirer Announcement Returns Reflect Value Creation?
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2020
Stock returns around acquisition announcements are widely viewed as being reflective of the net present value created by these transactions. As such, announcement returns should correlate with acquisition outcomes. Using a new measure of realized transaction-level acquisition failure, as well as...
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Means of Payment in Takeovers : Results for the U.K. and U.S
Harris, Robert S. - 1987
form of takeover (tender versus merger) and whether the bid is contested, cash offers provide substantially higher wealth …
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A. - 2010
This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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