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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …
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We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …
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. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals' life trajectories in terms of health, education, and earnings, the …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test … stability ; experimental validation ; fiel experiment ; SOEP ; gender differences ; age ; height ; subjective well-being …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … to move into high positions in the private sector. -- well-being ; gender ; management ; non-management ; unemployment …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …
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; gender …
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