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Two separate bodies of work have examined whether culture affects cooperation in economic games and whether cooperative or non-cooperative decisions occur more quickly. Here, we connect this work by exploring the relationship between decision time and cooperation in American versus Indian...
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. Conducting our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide evidence that fixed costs …
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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. Conducting our survey in six countries, Germany, France, Cyprus, China, India and Botswana, we provide evidence that fixed costs …
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among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
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. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …
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Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East Asia, and often related to sex-selective abortions and postbirth neglect of female children. In contrast, estimates of yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow...
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Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East Asia, and often related to sex-selective abortions and postbirth neglect of female children. In contrast, estimates of yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of...
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demographic groups in income surveys from six middle- and high-income countries across Asia: the People’s Republic of China (PRC …) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei,China …. Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea have very low degrees of overall income inequality by world standards, while …
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The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and existed on a large scale in the US around 1900. We first show that …
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