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Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003
Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. We test this hypothesis on communal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062717
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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003
The in-group-out-group bias is among the most well documented and widely observed phenomenon in the social sciences. Despite its role in hiring decisions and job discrimination, negotiations, and conflict and competition between groups, economists have heretofore ignored the in- group-out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062734
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Risk Pooling, Commitment, and Information: An experimental test of two fundamental assumptions
Barr, Abigail - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents rigorous and direct tests of two assumptions relating to limited commitment and asymmetric information that current underpin current models of risk pooling. A specially designed economic experiment involving 678 subjects across 23 Zimbabwean villages is used to solve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118664
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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace
Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004
We explore the role of reciprocity in wage determination by combining experimental and survey data. The experiment is similar to Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe's (1995) and is conducted with Ghanaian manufacturing workers. The survey relates to the same sample workers and the firms within which they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118755
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Rational and Biased Trust
Barr, Abigail - EconWPA - 2004
This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118769
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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004
We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408369
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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
proposals call for safe-deposit boxes and for matched savings accounts for health care or education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Home computers and educational outcomes: evidence from the NLSY97 and CPS
Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008
Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have … computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational … process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005712734
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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERACTION:A POLICY ORIENTED STUDY OF THE AFRICAN UNION
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003
POWERED BY THE DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, THE WORLD IS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE … ELECTRONICALLY AND IN INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS. KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556113