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Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia

Cheung, Maria - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2012

's status and primary school participation. Specifically, I examine a popular radio station focusing on gender issues in … towards changing socially constructed gender norms. …

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A matter of transient anonymity: Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions

von Essen, Emma; Karlsson, Jonas Karlsson - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013

This study shows that transient anonymity affects buyer discrimination based on seller’s gender and foreignness in … online auctions. Sellers’ names are categorized by gender and foreignness. Half of the sellers’ disclose their names in the … usernames and the other half employ anonymous usernames, concealing gender and foreignness. After the price is set and the …

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Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

employed is estimated, by gender and region of birth, for immigrants with varying duration of residence in Sweden. The …

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Femal Representation - Is it Important for Policy Decisions?

Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

This paper studies whether the degree of female representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may impact public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To empirically...

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Gender in Committees

Dufwenberg, Martin; Muren, Astri - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

How does a group’s gender composition influence its decisions? Economists have found women to be more generous and … learned regarding the influence of gender composition on committee decision-making more generally. …

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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference

Arai, Mahmood; Moa Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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Comment on Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012)

Nekby, Lena; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2014

In this brief comment, we return to the question raised in Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012) concerning a causal relationship between ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution. A re-analysis of their study indicates that the results are based on a severe sample selection bias and...

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The Effect of Age-Targeted Tax Credits on Retirement Behavior

Laun, Lisa - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged 65 or above at the beginning of the tax year. The...

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Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Nekby, Lena; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2012

In this paper, we return to the question raised in Dahlberg et al. (2012) concerning a causal relationship between ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution. A re-analysis of their study indicates that results are based on an endogenous instrument and severe sample attrition bias....

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Gender and economic preferences in a large random sample

Boschini, Anne; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Muren, Astri - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2014

We explore gender differences in preferences related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and … treatments where participants are primed with their gender or know the counterpart’s gender. We find no behavioral differences … between treatments, but some gender differences within specific treatments: men are in some instances less generous, more …

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