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We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
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that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …
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-stakes game, and controlling for performance differences, there is no gender gap in risk-taking among girls and boys in contrast …
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bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising increases men … not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter’s observable attributes. Effective … strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to reconcile the …
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This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …
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In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...
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This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers’ incentives to withdraw from the labor market when...
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decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we offer is that a parent’s immune system is refreshed by a child’s infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing thin. With the boosted immune system, the parent...
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