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Sex, self-interest and health care priorities
Sach, Tracey H.; Whynes, David K. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 1-7
In this questionnaire study, individuals were asked to prioritise publicly provided preventive health care services, one of which would be unavailable to them by virtue of their sex. The aim was to establish whether men and women would exhibit different degrees of self-interest when making a...
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Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it?
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne; Baum, Sandy - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 3, pp. 23-50
This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …
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Gender, Competitiveness, and Socialization at a Young Age: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society
Andersen, Steffen; Ertac, Seda; Gneezy, Uri; List, John A. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1438-1443
usually require competitiveness, competitiveness differences provide an explanation for gender gaps in wages and differences …
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Gender differences in bargaining outcomes: A field experiment on discrimination
Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan; Torero, Maximo; … - In: Journal of Public Economics 99 (2013) C, pp. 35-48
Relying on a commonly used fixed-offer bargaining script we examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a … negotiating. The signal eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical …
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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 32-40
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Income shocks and gender gaps in education: Evidence from Uganda
Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 237-253
income shocks on children's enrollment and academic performance conditional on gender. I find negative deviations in rainfall …
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Executive board composition and bank risk taking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 28 (2014) C, pp. 48-65
. Exploiting a unique dataset, we investigate how age, gender, and educational composition of executive teams affect the portfolio …
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …
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Women's Role in the Swiss Economy
Dutu, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
habits with the hunt for talent regardless of gender. Finally, a corporate governance code in favour of a more equal …
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