Showing 1 - 10 of 934
's behavior as a signal of how the latter would treat her if they met? In order to measure the relative importance of the altruism … than an act of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828118
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306855
We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender compositions. In mixed teams, males strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346452
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276092
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822497
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908656
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19 …), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that … priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and reciprocity towards compatriots, citizens of other EU countries, and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224088
comparing altruism across relevant sub-groups, such as gender and wealth, leading to possibly erroneous conclusions about which … literature to the literature on social preferences. Following Andersen et al. (2008), we design a laboratory experiment to … jointly elicit risk preferences and preferences for altruism. Consistent with theory, we find that the standard simplifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243683
Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the … entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of … industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823557
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834878