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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - 2002

social interaction and culture may translate into parameters that directly affect individual behaviour. Data from the German …

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The differential influence of women's residential district on their risk of entering motherhood and first marriage : a discrete time multilevel analysis of Western German panel dat...

Hank, Karsten - 2002

To begin with, we sketch a general multilevel model of regional social contexts and individual family formation behavior, where particular attention is paid to the determinants of the actor's situation. Then a set of bridge hypotheses is proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the...

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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015 - Updated version

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that observing groups show lower within group standard deviation. Thus, we provide evidence for conformity. Further, we find that...

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence

Grohmann, Antonia; Sakha, Sahra - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392209

Social interactions and aspirations formation in rural Ethiopia

Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew - 2016

The recent literature postulates that aspirations are one of the key determinants of economic decision making, and that aspirations are formed socially through observations and by learning from 'relevant others' (or the 'reference group'). This study empirically examines the latter using survey...

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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017

-treated individuals through social interaction and can thus change attitudes towards gender roles in a society as a whole. …

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Interactions in fixed effects regression models

Giesselmann, Marco; Schmidt, Alexander - 2018

An interaction in a fixed effects (FE) regression is usually specified by demeaning the product term. However, this … interacted variables whose moderators vary within units. This is desirable if the interaction of one unit-specific and one time … algebraic transformations show, the FE interaction estimator picks up unit-specific effect heterogeneity of both variables …

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Community cohesion and assimilation equilibria

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2018

We study the assimilation behavior of a group of migrants who live in a city populated by native inhabitants. We conceptualize the group as a community, and the city as a social space. Assimilation increases the productivity of migrants and, consequently, their earnings. However, assimilation...

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Social identity and group lending!

Chatterjee, Prabirendra (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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