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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense that … the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590199
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600188
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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603203
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How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?
Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001
Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968853
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Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters
Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003
Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102668
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The law of attraction bilateral search and horizontal heterogeneity
Hofmann, Dirk; Qari, Salmai - 2011
We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281545
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Analyzing matching patterns in marriage : theory and application to Italian data
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Ciscato, Edoardo; Guerriero, Carla - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 737-781
traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value (SEV) models not only generate a matching function with several … relates to various "outcomes" of the post-matching relationship. Children of parents with a high human capital endowment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053877
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Marital patterns and income inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871663
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Stable Partnerships, Matching, and Local Public Goods
Clark, Simon; Kanbur, Ravi - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004
In the presence of local public goods differences in tastes are an important determinant of the way in which partnerships are formed. Heterogeneity in tastes for private vs. public goods produces a tendency to positive assortment and partnerships of couples with similar tastes; heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005147109
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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320404