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Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at … on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …
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selection? In this paper we address this question and collect new information on workplace disclosure to separate out …/bisexual workers earn about 3 to 4 percent less than other men. Our disclosure estimates, however, provide little evidence that the …
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occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …
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direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
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the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …
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and start over as new sellers. Buyer trust and seller trustworthiness decrease significantly when sellers can erase their … ratings. With identity changes, trust is particularly low towards new sellers since buyers cannot discriminate between truly …
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This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …
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This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
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