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The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2020
Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425656
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The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining : Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314812
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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264378
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Does Co-Residence with Parents-In-Law Reduce Women's Employment in India?
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023
norms. Our evidence is consistent with gender- and generational norms intersecting to constrain married women's employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290148
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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica; Cooper, Jan - 2021
We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women’s agency. The approach combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly correlated they are with a “gold standard” measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582047
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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica; Cooper, Jan - 2021
We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women’s agency. The approach combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly correlated they are with a “gold standard” measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235120
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Does Co-Residence with Parents-in-Law Reduce Women's Employment in India?
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023
norms. Our evidence is consistent with gender- and generational norms intersecting to constrain married women’s employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262036
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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India
Lowe, Matthew; McKelway, Madeline - 2021
Joint household decision-making may be prevented by the incentives of individuals to withhold information or avoid bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In partnership with one of India’s largest carpet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799746
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Mission Drift in Microcredit and Microfinance Institution Incentives
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017
We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on “mission drift” in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615887
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Food for fuel: The effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012
a sharp increase in world poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283922