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Marriage, Partnership and Sexual Orientation: A Study of British University Academics and Administrators

Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

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Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233906

Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L.; Sosa, Cardona; Marcela, Lina; Nolen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...

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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?

Booth, Alison L.; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371894