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Leader identity and coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer; … - 2018
This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
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Increasing women's empowerment: implications for family welfare
Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Michael - 2021
Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase women's empowerment among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698920
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Birth order, fertility, and child height in India and Africa
Spears, Dean; Coffey, Diane; Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …, implies more socioeconomic disadvantage within India than within Africa. Accounting for sibsize reverses the apparent Indian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001397
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The effect of behavioral codes and gender on honesty
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - 2014
We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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Social networks and parental behavior in the intergenerational transmission of religion
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2011
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and … effect of peers on the transmission of the non-religious trait. -- religion ; cultural transmission ; peer effects ; network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309615
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Endogenous leadership : selection and influence
Arbak, Emrah (contributor);  … - 2007
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
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Leadership at school : does the gender of siblings matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663904
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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Diagnosing discrimination : stock returns and CEO gender
Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274244
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Welfare rules, incentives, and family structure
Moffitt, Robert A.; Phelan, Brian J.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2015
In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …
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