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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 stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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This paper is an attempt to provide a tentative framework for an objective, factual and systematic look at important dimensions of the child labour problem in rural India.
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Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. …
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We study the development of bargaining behavior in children age seven through 18, using ultimatum and dictator games … changes in preferences for fairness, rather than bargaining ability. Younger children make and accept smaller ultimatum … proposals than do older children, Even young children are quite strategic in their behavior, making much smaller dictator than …
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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 stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371463
Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …
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The present essay outlines the defining features of the capitalist system, the evolution of the Western political models during history and the way these have reflected in the business and financial reporting models. The differences between the Anglo-Saxon business model and the continental...
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We study the role of status in an experimental Principal-Agent game.Status is awarded to subjects based on either talent or luck. In each randomly matched principal-agent pair, the principal chooses the agent's status-contingent piece rate for a task in which talent matters for performance (an...
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We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...
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This paper empirically assesses the relationship between culture and a free press. The results reveal that a privatized … or ‘free media’ strongly influences informal institutions of a country or what is commonly known as culture. By providing …
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