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Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing if, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing, but a total one never is, if education is available,...
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typology of norms and values. Leveraging pooled World Values Survey and European Values Study data of 137,505 individuals that … live in 76 countries across the world, we find three archetypes that capture individuals' values and norms in a cross …
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, behaviours and norms that are transmitted through migration. Although economists are newcomers to this literature, they have … unanimously points at the important role played by international migration in the transfer of norms. However, host countries … us to appreciate better the mechanisms through which norms are transferred. …
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This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
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