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Diversity and Forensics: Diversity in Hiring is Not Enough

Koppl, Roger - EconWPA - 2005

The current organization of forensic work may induce biases in forensic analysis (Risinger et al. 2002). Such biases may have a differential impact across groups, creating differential bias. We should reorganize forensic work to reduce differential bias. The obvious strategy of hiring ethnically...

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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...

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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...

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Risk Pooling, Commitment, and Information: An experimental test of two fundamental assumptions

Barr, Abigail - EconWPA - 2004

information that current underpin current models of risk pooling. A specially designed economic experiment involving 678 subjects … be conducted the networks of risk pooling contracts constructed during the experiment and the networks existing in real …

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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 …

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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...

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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 … experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by …

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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals

Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...

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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 …

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The Effect of an Additional Alternative on Measured Risk Preferences in a Field Experiment

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Escobal, Javier; Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2005

Peru. In our experiment, subjects revealed their risk preferences with a series of choices between two gambles. We added a …

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