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for socialization in the intergenerational transmission of preferences that predict economic behaviour. …
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the taste for science by a taste for publication. We suggest as alternatives careful selection and socialization of …
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empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II … generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization - across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique … socialization - within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious …
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Since the seminal work of Becker, the analysis of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents between the quantity and the quality of their children. In order to have an interior solution, the model assumes that in case children work, still they get positive income from...
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
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comprehensive education exposed the rich to a more diverse set of peers and therefore weakened their taste for homogamy. This …
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We develop a formal theory of decency. Shared values and understandings give rise to social norms. Norms may mandate collectively optimal behavior, but they need not do so. Furthermore, behavior can be affected by social values even if it stops short of norm compliance. Seeking stronger...
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this socialization decreases when we control for parents risk attitudes. Third, since there are strong gender roles in …
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We study the impact of early socialization on gender inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link the gender …
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