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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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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 Value of Environmental Status Signaling: The Case of the Toyota Prius

Delgado, Michael S.; Harriger, Jessica L.; Khanna, Neha - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Blood for Social Status: Preliminary Evidence from Rural China

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...

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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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Recursive Sustainability: Intertemporal Efficiency and Equity

Knapp, Keith C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

PV-optimality in a capital-resource economy can imply decreasing utility over some portion of the time horizon. Various criteria have been proposed to maintain intergenerational equity defined as nondeclining utility, but these have some limitations and problems. This paper proposes a new...

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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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The Effect of Continuing Education Participation on Agricultural Worker Outcomes

Pena, Anita Alves - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Migrant farmworkers are among the poorest members of the working class served by the U.S. public workforce investment system. The National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) provides job training and employment assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents. While stated goals...

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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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