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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics [PDF]
Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual models, including collective models.
Grossbard, Shoshana
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Does U.S. Immigration Policy Facilitate Financial Misconduct?
Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 2039-2081, December 2025.ABSTRACT We examine whether U.S. immigration policy, specifically the H‐1B visa program, affects the likelihood of financial misconduct. We argue that employers have leverage over employees on H‐1B visas because such employees must maintain H‐1B–eligible employment to legally reside in the United States. We posit that companies relying on H‐1B visas to
Ruiting Dai +3 more
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Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids? [PDF]
This paper studies the evolutionary game theory of parent-offspring conflict. It revisits a question posed by Gary Becker in economics and Richard Alexander in biology, namely "when do children act in accord with the reproductive interests of their ...
Carl Bergstrom, Ted Bergstrom
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The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors
British Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 182, Issue S1, Page S24-S151, December 2025.The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear,
Stephen P. H. Alexander +206 more
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Data‐Driven Accommodations: Testing Religious Exemptions in Markets With Discrimination
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4, Page 620-654, December 2025.ABSTRACT When conflicts between religious wedding vendors and same‐sex couples arise, courts and legislatures face a dilemma. Existing empirical work such as audit studies and field experiments shows that religious exemptions may lead to higher refusal rates for same‐sex couples seeking wedding services.
Brady Earley
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GARY BECKER’S LEGACY ON INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY [PDF]
Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015 How well do parents’ education, earnings, income, and wealth predict the same outcomes for their children? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for a long time. Francis Galton (1822–1911) was the first to apply statistical methods to tackle this question. Centuries earlier, the great Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) famously observed
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Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed About the Probability of Apprehension [PDF]
This paper considers optimal enforcement when individuals may be imperfectly informed about the probability of apprehension. When individuals are perfectly informed, optimal sanctions are maximal because, as Gary Becker (1968) suggested, society can ...
Louis Kaplow, Lucian Arye Bebchuk
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Women, Work, and the Academy [PDF]
, 2005 Harvard University President Lawrence Summers triggered an avalanche of media coverage and debate about the status of women in science in a 14 January 2005 speech.
Bell, Robin E., Laird, Jennifer D.
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Reformulating the Critique of Human Capital Theory
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1839-1851, December 2025.ABSTRACT Despite criticism, human capital theory (HCT) has remained central for six decades to the teaching and practice of economics. This paper reformulates the critique of HCT, focusing on two aspects that are typically relegated to the margin.
Paul Auerbach, Francis Green
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