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Augustin Landier et David Thesmar
Ingela Alger et Donald Cox
n° 12-369, 31 décembre 2012, révision mai 2013
What can evolutionary biology tell us about male-female differences in preferences concerning family matters? Might mothers be more solicitous toward offspring than fathers, for example? The economics literature has documented gender differences—children benefit more from money put in the hands of...
2012
Imen Ghattassi et Nour Meddahi
Pierre Pestieau et Emmanuel Thibault
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, vol. 50, n° 1, 2012, p. 31–57
This paper presents a simple OLG model which is consistent with observed consumer behavior, capital accumulation and wealth distribution, and yields some new conclusions about fiscal policy. By considering a society in which individuals are distinguished according to two characteristics, altruism...
Emmanuelle Auriol et Robert J. Gary-Bobo
vol. 153, décembre 2012, p. 419–445
We propose a normative theory of the number of representatives based on a model of a representative democracy. We derive a formula giving the number of representatives as proportional to the square root of total population. Simple tests of the formula on a sample of a 100 countries yield good...
Jean-Paul Azam
vol. 153, n° 3-4, décembre 2012, p. 357–373
This paper tries to reconcile the observed fact that suicide-terrorists have a relatively high education level with rationality. It brings out the conditions under which potential students choose to acquire some education in a rational-choice model where this yields a non-zero probability of...
