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Names and behavior in a war
Jurajda, Štěpán; Kovač, Dejan - 2020
nationalism conveyed by first names to suggests that in ex-Yugoslav Croatia, nationalism was on a continuous rise starting in the …We implement a novel empirical strategy for measuring and studying a strong form of nationalism - the willingness to … fight and die in a war for national independence - using name choices corresponding to previous war leaders. Based on data …
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Names and behavior in a war
Jurajda, Štěpán; Kovač, Dejan - In: Journal of population economics : international … 34 (2021) 1, pp. 1-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418134
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The chips are down : the influence of family on children's trust formation
Giulietti, Corrado; Rettore, Enrico; Tonini, Sara - 2016
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically...
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Parental involvement and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences, attitude and personality traits
Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2020
We empirically investigate the link between parental involvement and shaping of the economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and locus of control of parents and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293100
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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672855
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Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
Standard homo economicus lives in a world of complete markets and maximizes utility which is a function of his personal consumption. This approximation cannot account for parents making transfers to adult children, children taking care of old parents, nor for gifts, inheritance and many other...
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797673
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703241
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793312
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Parental paternalism and patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416153