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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosen, Asa - 2021
sustaining discrimination. In contrast to standard models, the existence of employers with a taste for discrimination may make it …
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Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession
Couch, Kenneth A. - 2016
Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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Peer Effects in Risk Taking
Lahno, Amrei Marie - 2014
We examine peer effects in risk taking with complete information and compare explanations for peer effects based on relative payoff concerns to explanations that allow peer choices to matter. We vary experimentally whether individuals can condition a simple lottery choice on the lottery choice,...
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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Violent Groups and Police Tactics : Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
Gaechter, Simon - 2017
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns : Theory and Evidence
Tincani, Michela - 2017
Using a theoretical model where students care about achievement rank, I study effort choices in the classroom and show that rank concerns generate peer effects. The model's key empirical prediction is that the effect on own achievement of increasing the dispersion in peer cost of effort is...
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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2014
We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size...
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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Thöni, Christian - 2014
Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent...
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