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The bicausal relation between religion and income
Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2005
In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- Comparison ; habituation ; income …
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Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2011
activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. -- comparison ; habituation ; income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408713
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Protecting Families in a Global Economy
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Brun, Carmen L. - 2013
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours of family external labor supplied are rising. Finding a spouse...
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Marital Sorting and Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
Tolstova, Vera - 2021
In a real economy, decisions on investments in child human capital of children are made by families rather than by atomistic parents as is typically assumed in the literature. This paper incorporates family formation into an otherwise standard dynastic framework with human capital accumulation....
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S. (ed.); Gang, Ira N. (ed.) - 2010 - 1st ed
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors of the papers in this volume bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests...
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654599
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658260