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gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …
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reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third … less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a …
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refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns “he,” “she,” or the gender-inclusive singular “they.” In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …, or gender-inclusive. Little is known as to whether the framing of norms with respect to these grammatical genders affects …
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]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …
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We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …
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the game that they themselves play. We conclude that gender matters when examining how unethical behavior spreads. Both …
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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 …
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Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...
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