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Unemployment and identity
Schöb, Ronnie - 2012
This paper employs social identity and self-categorization theories as a useful heuristic framework through which to learn more about the nature of the misery experienced by the unemployed; in economic terms, the individual cost of unemployment. Utilizing this framework, the paper provides...
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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546985
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011 - This version: 26 July 2011
endogenous role assignment and chat unexpectedly worsens team performance. We argue that ego depletion provides a likely … explanation for this surprising result. -- role selection in teams ; team performance ; takeover game ; winner's curse …
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495148
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Gender roles and the gender expectations gap
D'Acunto, Francesco; Malmendier, Ulrike; Weber, Michael - 2020
Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...
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Do role models matter in large classes? : new evidence on gender match effects in higher education
Maurer, Stephan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects differ by class size. We use administrative records of a German public university, covering all programs and courses between 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on...
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Gender role models in education
Goulas, Sofoklis; Gunawardena, Bhagya N.; … - 2024
records, which positions them as role models. Both male and female students are influenced by the performance of a same … positive effects from the presence of a same-gender role model. Specifically, female students improved their science test …-income neighborhoods. Our findings suggest that same-gender peer role models could reduce the underrepresentation of qualified females in …
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544507
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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