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Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary …
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The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...
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We study the effectiveness of a novel measure to reduce gender gaps in political empowerment: double preference voting … conditioned on gender, coupled with gender quotas on candidate lists. This policy was introduced in 2013 in Italian local …
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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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Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using … men and women in Turkey. There are significant differences between the genders, nevertheless. In particular, the effect of …
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the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …
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sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and …
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Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …
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higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational … transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics …, measured in childhood, differentially predict the likelihood of employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on …
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One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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