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Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2023
to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261036
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064400
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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?
Mani, Subha - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960262
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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842042
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2016
return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964220
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134986
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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane - 2014
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050629
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The role of central bank knowledge and trust for the public's inflation expectations
Mellina, Sathya; Schmidt, Tobias - 2018
Since the financial crisis, central banks have stressed the role of trust and communication in connection with their … effectiveness of monetary policy. Assessing how much the general public knows about and trust in central banks and how these factors …' objectives. Knowledge of the ECB's and the Bundesbank's goals act as significant drivers of trust in these institutions, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897980