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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under …
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group size and group gender composition. We conduct an online experiment with 1,677 participants (477 groups) where group …
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differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their "present bias." We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in women …
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time. -- family economics ; intra-household decision power ; gender differences …We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices …'s characteristics in terms of age, education, and income. The main conclusion is that decision-making power over family economics is not …
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anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor heavily on the initial dollar value of a clue … in their wagering decision, even though there exists no rational reason to do so. More than half of all wagers occur … manifests itself among college students. Overall, our findings suggest anchoring plays a substantial role in financial decision …
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whether nominations close this gender gap. For example, are male nominators more willing than female nominators to enter … nominees into competitions. Further, we consider the interaction between nominator and nominee gender. For example, do men shy … away from entering women into competitions, or do they make them compete too much? We find a gender gap in neither …
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A simple graphical approach to presenting results from nonlinear regression models is described. In the face of multiple covariates, 'partial mean' plots may be unattractive. The approach here is portable to a variety of settings and can be tailored to the specific application at hand. A simple...
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results into two decision theoretical criteria adapted from the recent economics literature, we find that using small bins …
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Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...
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Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...
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