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Retirement of Spouses and Social Security Reform

Falkinger, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of data limitations, only a few empirical studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view...

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The Benefits of Separating Early Retirees from the Unemployed: Simulation Results for Belgian Wage Earners

Desmet, Raphael; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The pool of early retirees is characterized by a large heterogeneity along several criteria. The present paper focuses on the key distinction between those in forced early retirement and those who retire early by individual choice. We start by estimating a retirement probit model for older...

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Child Care Provision: Semiparametric Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico.

Dubois, Pierre; Rubio-Codina, Marta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

mothers and older sisters spend taking care of children aged under 3, using the randomization of the program placement and the …

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Endogenous Fertility Policy

Booth, Alison L; Sepulveda, Facundo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

. We find that subsidies to the costs of children expand the set of equilibria, making social security viable where it …

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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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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

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Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labour Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …

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Key Players

Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this chapter, we provide an overview on the literature on key players in networks. We first introduce the theoretical concept of the key player, which is the agent that should be targeted by the planner so that, once removed, she will generate the highest level of reduction in total activity....

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Migration, Friendship Ties, and Cultural Assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper we contribute to the analysis of the assimilation process of migrants by analyzing the extent to which friendship with natives can be seen as a measure of cultural assimilation and investigating the formation of social ties in the host country. Using novel information from the...

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