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Popular Attitudes Towards Free Markets: The Soviet Union and the United States Compared
Shiller, Robert J.; Boycko, Maxim; Korobov, Vladimir - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 1990
Random samples of the Moscow and New York populations were compared in their attitudes towards free markets by administering identical telephone interviews in the two countries in May, 1990. Although the Soviet respondents were somewhat less likely to accept exchange of money as a solution to...
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A critique of emergency management policy: recommendations to reduce disaster vulnerability
McEntire, David A. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 3 (2008) 5/6, pp. 302-312
profession in the USA. This paper evaluates the founding principles upon which this profession was based in the 1980s. It then …
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UHNWI IN EMERGING MARKETS – THEY STILL THINK, ACT AND INVEST DIFFERENTLY
Bacher, Urban; Stober, Kai L. - In: Interdisciplinary Management Research 9 (2013), pp. 481-492
Extremely affluent investors differ in a number of ways. In industrialized countries the average age of UHNWI is rather high, their wealth is frequently inherited and the investment style if more conservative. In contrast, UHNWI in emerging markets are comparatively young, they have created...
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Do People Save or Spend Their Inheritances? Understanding What Happens to Inherited Wealth
Zagorsky, Jay - In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues 34 (2013) 1, pp. 64-76
inheritance and about one-seventh expecting to receive an inheritance. Suggestions to increase savings from inheritances are …
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Labor supply in the terminal stages of lone parents’ lives
Fevang, Elisabeth; Kverndokk, Snorre; Røed, Knut - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2012) 4, pp. 1399-1422
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013
inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors … in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. The effect …
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Inherited wealth over the path of development: Sweden, 1810–2010
Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution … capital-income ratio and the inheritance flow during the twenti-eth century. The recent differences in inheritance flows have …
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Inherited wealth over the path of development: Sweden, 1810–2010
Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution … capital-income ratio and the inheritance flow during the twenti-eth century. The recent differences in inheritance flows have …
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014
inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors … inheritance. We also find that only the effect of inheritance rules persists over the 1971-2001 period. …
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Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2014
inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …
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