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Land inequality, eduction, and marriage : empirical evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016
inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …
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Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender
Moe, Karine S. (ed.) - 2003
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The law and economics of marriage contracts
Smith, Ian - In: Journal of economic surveys 17 (2003) 2, pp. 201-225
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903035
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011 - Revised version: November 15, 2011
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in labor market productivity and other outcomes. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects: measurement, development over the life...
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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Narratives in economics
Roos, Michael W. M.; Reccius, Matthias - 2021
There is growing awareness within the economics profession of the important role narratives play in the economy. Even though empirical approaches that try to quantify economic narratives are getting increasingly popular, there is no theory or even a universally accepted definition of economic...
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A survey of theories of the family
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - 1994
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The demand for children : a survey
Lakshmanasamy, T. - In: The Asian economic review : journal of the Indian … 33 (1991) 1, pp. 49-102
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