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English language premium in a marriage market : experimental evidence from Delhi

Miyamoto, Tomohisa; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2024

conducted on a matrimonial website, to examine returns to English language skills for females in a marriage market in Delhi …. Indicating strong English language skills in a marriage profile increases the number of views and interests received by 20% and … English language proficiency expands the set of potential marriage partners and may help promote inter-caste alliances. …

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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity

Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between men and...

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Dividing housework between partners : individual preferences and social norms

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2024

Using UK longitudinal data on dual-earner couples, this paper estimates a model of intrahousehold housework decisions, which combines a randomized experimental framework eliciting counterfactual choices with gender norms differences across ethnicities and cohorts to identify the impacts of...

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Estimating time preferences for leisure

Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide; Luchini, Stéphane; … - 2021

We study time preferences by means of a longitudinal lab experiment involving both monetary and non-monetary rewards (leisure). Our novel design allows to measure whether participants prefer to anticipate or delay gratification, without imposing any structural assumption on the instantaneous...

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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : on the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 83-87

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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions

Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019

standing in the marriage market and that they care about their standing in that market more than married men do, we find that a … of divorce and, hence, on the likelihood of re-entry into the marriage market: married men in environments that are more …

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Cooperation, punishment and organized crime : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Southern Italy

Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2016

This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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The role of social mobility experience in zero-sum beliefs

Liu, Kelly J.; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

In today's world where growth and capital accumulation are the norm, many people still adhere to zero-sum thinking, the belief that gains for one party can only come at the expense of another party. The perception of economic exchange as zero-sum can lead to excessive competition and...

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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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