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: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …
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Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...
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We conducted a framed field experiment to explore a situation where individuals have potentially competing social identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The Dictator Game and the Trust Game were conducted in...
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Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an … approach that additionally engages with the enforcers of gender norms in the wider community. We find that both arms of the …
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country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …
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We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department common room). We explore academics’ and postgraduate students’ behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a disorder condition (messy environment). We find...
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This study explores people's risk attitudes after having suffered large real-world losses following a natural disaster. Using the margins of the 2011 Australian floods (Brisbane) as a natural experimental setting, we find that homeowners who were victims of the floods and face large losses in...
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may also be at work. -- Research Productivity ; Human Capital ; Graduate Education ; Gender Differences …
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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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