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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543088
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Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Altruistic or Commercial ?
Banerjee, Swapnendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
always optimal irrespective of altruism, outside option and social ignominy. …
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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India Shadow Report
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious attention. India may recognize its 41% child population3 as a demographic dividend, but...
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The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2010
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011
A bill further to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. [Rajya Sabha passed this bill …]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Juvenile%20Justice/juvenile%20justice%20Bill.pdf]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323732
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Child Development, the Life Course, and Social Exclusion: Are the Frameworks Used in the UK Relevant for Developing Countries?
Hobcraft, John - eSocialSciences - 2007
It is suggested that there are several aspects of the social exclusion approach that are valuable in both the UK and developing country contexts. A summary of research on the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage drawing especially from work on the UK birth cohorts of 1958 and 1970....
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Children not included in "Inclusive‟ Budget: Where is the "Aam Bachcha†in the Budget, Mr FM?
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2010
Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464833
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
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Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory
Woolcock, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social†(or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as follows. In recognizing that poverty is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487729