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A theory of firm decline
Sabatini, Fabio - 2010
opportunity cost of motherhood connected to higher female labour participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the … contrary, the instability of the women's work status (i.e. their being occasional, precarious, and low-paid workers) reveals to …
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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...
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Economics: An Emerging Small World?
Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco; Moraga-Gonzàlez, … - 2004
The structures of social interaction affect individual behavior and economic performance in important ways. This leads us to ask: does the architecture of social interaction exhibit particular patterns and are these patterns stable over time? We examine interaction among economists by looking at...
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Punish and perish?
Antoci, Angelo; Zarri, Luca - 2011
The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social sciences. Behavioral economics has persuasively shown that so called strong reciprocity plays a key role in accounting for the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar as...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
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Inequity Aversion May Increase Inequity
Montero, Maria - 2006
Inequity aversion models have been used to explain equitable payoff divisions in bargaining games. I show that inequity aversion can actually increase the asymmetry of payoff division if unanimity is not required. This is due to the analogy between inequity aversion and risk aversion. Inequity...
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Binary Choice with Binary Endogenous Regressors in Panel Data: Estimating the Effect of Fertility on Female Labour Participation
Carrasco, Raquel - 1999
to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …
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Money, Endogenous Fertility and Economic Growth
Petrucci, Alberto - 1999
accumulation and inflation with endogenous fertility, i.e. endogenous population growth. The model establishes an inverse relation … money. A higher monetary growth rate increases fertility, since it reduces its opportunity cost, and hence diminishes …
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Illiquidity and all its friends
Tirole, Jean - 2010
illiquidity and all its friends: market freezes, fire sales, contagion, and ultimately insolvencies and bailouts. It first …
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Games on networks: Direct complements and indirect substitutes
Currarini, Sergio; Fumagalli, Elena; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2013
Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in stocks affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...
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