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Do Non-standard Working Hours Cause Negative Health Effects? Some Evidence from Panel Data

Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work accounts for an increasing share of the job opportunities, relatively little is known about the potential consequences for health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this...

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

Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

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

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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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Back-to-front Down-under? Estimating the Part-time/Full-time Wage Differential over the Period 2001-2003

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...

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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Back-to-front Down-under? Part-time/Full-time Wage Differentials in Australia

Booth, Alison; Wood, Margi - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

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Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 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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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy Over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and … countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

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Labor Market Returns, Marriage Opportunities, or the Education System? Explaining Gender Differences in Numeracy in Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

This paper measures the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school age children using a longitudinal … that any changes in the gender gap are caused by actual changes in numeracy. To my knowledge, this is the first study that … marriage market returns to numeracy for either gender. The second explanation is that the Indonesian education system appears …

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