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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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provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes exclude certain goods (especially those related to culture) from trade …
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This study examines the critical interplay between institutional and cultural backgrounds and their collective impact on economic development, suggesting that their synchronized evolution-timing, pace, and direction-boosts economic development, while misalignment hinders it. It seeks to...
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. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …
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- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …
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Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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