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Can Racially Unbiased Police Perpetuate Long-Run Discrimination?

Bunzel, H.; Marcoul, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

We develop a stylized dynamic model of highway policing in which a non-racist police officer is given incentives to arrest criminals, but faces a per stop cost of stop which increases when the racial mix of the persons he stops di.ers from the racial mix of the population.We define the fair jail...

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Trust and discrimination in a segmented society : An experimental approach

Fershtman, C.; Gneezy, U. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Part-time Jobs : What Women Want?

van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 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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The Gambler's Fallacy and Gender

Suetens, Sigrid; Tyran, J.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

recently. Such beliefs are false if the onset of events is in fact independent of previous events. We study gender differences …

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S.; Valente, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

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Sex and Credit : Is There a Gender Bias in Microfinance?

Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Madestam, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find … is independent of loan officer gender. Ending up with an opposite-sex loan officer also affects demand for credit, with …

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The Economics of Dowry Payments in Pakistan

Anderson, K.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenomenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse.The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan.Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...

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Sex and Credit : Is there a Gender Bias in Lending?

Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Madestam, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

to show that own-gender preferences affect both credit supply and demand. Borrowers matched to officers of the opposite … gender are less likely to return for a second loan. The effect is larger when officers have little prior exposure to … borrowers of the other gender and when they have more discretion to act on their gender beliefs, as proxied by financial market …

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Job Satisfaction And Family Happiness : The Part-Time Work Problem

van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...

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Gender and Banking : Are Women Better Loan Officers?

Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Guttler, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We analyze gender differences associated with loan officer performance. Using a unique data set for a commercial bank … monitoring, as loan officers of different gender do not seem to screen borrowers differently based on observable borrower … characteristics. This suggests that gender indeed matters in banking. …

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