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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

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Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam

Barnes, Douglas F.; Nguyen Huu Minh; Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009

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Chancengerechtigkeit und Entwicklung

2006 - 1. Aufl., Sonderausg.

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Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Demonsant, Jean-Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …. Since formally educated children tend not to return, the ruling caste seeks to develop family loyalty by choosing religious …. Children from the ruling caste who are sent abroad have a lower probability of being sent to formal school. They are more …

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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth

Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …

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Equity Aversion

Fershtman, Chaim; Gneezy, Uri; List, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Models of inequity aversion and fairness have dominated the behavioural economics landscape in the last decade. This study gathers data from 240 subjects exposed to variants of two of the major experimental games - dictator and trust - that are employed to provide important empirical content to...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …

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Returns to Education across Europe

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Incentives to invest in higher education are affected by both the direct wage effect of human capital investments and the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher educated. We analyse the returns to education in...

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Firm Entry Deregulation, Competition and Returns to Education and Skill

Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of firm entry deregulation. We exploit a recent reform that simplified business entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the reform for identification. Using matched employer-employee...

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The Earnings Distribution and Returns to Education in Ireland, 1987-94

Barrett, Alan; Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The increased supply of skilled labour and institutional factors have been advanced in an effort to explain why some countries have experienced smaller increases in earnings dispersion and in returns to education relative to the United States. Ireland’s supply of skilled labour has increased...

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