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Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self-esteem and his social environment - in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...

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Continuous Preferences Can Cause Discontinuous Choices: An Application to the Impact of Incentives on Altruism

Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

economic theory of human motivation. The first (‘type discontinuity’) is the observation of a discontinuity in the distribution …

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Donations

Buraschi, Andrea; Cornelli, Francesca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This paper is an empirical study of the motives for charitable donations, based on a unique data set of the English National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but also their opera attendance and all the fringe...

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Household External Finance and Consumption

Besley, Timothy J.; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market....

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Doux Commerces: Does Market Competition Cause Trust?

Francois, Patrick; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

.g., income, education, age, sex, marital status, city size, religion, and is large; a one standard deviation increase in sectoral …

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Household Responses to Information on Child Nutrition: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...

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The One-Child Policy and Household Savings

Choukhmane, Taha; Coeurdacier, Nicolas; Jin, Keyu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

through a shift in the composition of demographics and income across generations. The micro-channel alters saving behaviour …

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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We develop a theory of intergenerational transmission of preferences that rationalizes the choice between alternative …. Parenting style, in turn, feeds back into the children's welfare and economic success. The theory is consistent with the decline …

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Why Are Indian Children So Short?

Jayachandran, Seema; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller than African firstborns; the Indian height...

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Gender Identity and Relative Income Within Households

Bertrand, Marianne; Kamenica, Emir; Pan, Jessica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We show the distribution of the share of … income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop to the right of 1/2, where the wife's income exceeds the husbands income. We … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home …

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