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Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Stereotypes: Experimental Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patrilineal Society
Pondorfer, Andreas; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women across two distinct island societies in the Pacific: the patrilineal Palawan in the Philippines and the matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender...
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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market: Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This study directly assesses the impact of military work experience compared with civilian work experience in similar jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. A statistical examination of our...
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Measuring group disadvantage with inter-distributional inequality indices: A critical review and some amendments to existing indices
Yalonetzky, Gaston - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
A long literature on inter-distributional inequality (IDI) has developed statistical tools for measuring the extent of inequality between two groups (e.g. men versus women). Firstly, I introduce the property of group-specific disadvantage focus (GDF). Indices satisfying this property are only...
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Deterrence Works for Criminals
Khadjavi, Menusch - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a...
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Equal Split in the Informal Market for Group Train Travel
Waichman, Israel; Korzhenevych, Artem; Requate, Till - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
In this paper we make use of a unique dataset collected in the central train station of Kiel, Germany. A group ticket is used by individual proposers who search for co-travelers to share the ride with shortly before the train departure. The bargaining behavior resembles the Ultimatum game to the...
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Multiple-Item Risk Measures
Menkhoff, Lukas; Sakha, Sahra - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We compare seven established risk elicitation methods and investigate how they explain an extensive set of risky behavior from a large household survey. We find overall positive correlation between items and low explanatory power in terms of behavior. Using an average of seven risk elicitation...
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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova
Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
-reported health. No e ects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We trace these positive outcomes to an income e ect which …
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Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
Caponi, Vincenzo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on all immigrants to the U.S., legal and illegal ones. Using econometric methodology proposed by Lancaster and Imbens (1996) we...
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More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda
Golan, Jennifer; Lay, Jann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition … equations incorporating bargaining proxies. We find that income from coffee is increasingly pooled and therefore shared more …. Moreover, female-headed households are deterred from entry into coffee farming mainly because of discrimination in access to …
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Men, Women, and the Ballot. Gender Imbalances and Suffrage Extensions in US States
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it under the imminent threat of female unrest. These facts are difficult to reconcile with leading political economy theories of suffrage extensions. In...
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