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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 … are informed about personal characteristics in the second game. Results show that guilt-averse women are significantly …
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A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a … gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … are less supportive of democracy than males in a number of countries. Using data for 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, we …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …. We also find some evidence of an increase in women’s labor supply following WPS opening, consistent with women feeling …
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-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …
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Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees …, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …
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This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …
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The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon …. One explanation for the disadvantaged position of women put forward in the economic and psychology literature is the … weaker response of women to competitive incentives. Despite the large amount of literature trying to explain this fact, the …
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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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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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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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