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-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are …
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Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
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We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces the government's optimal audit probability and yields higher tax compliance. Second, individuals...
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compositional and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of …
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Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by …
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This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the first child's gender. For the sample of South...
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Do men negatively respond when women first enter an occupation? We answer this question by studying the end of one of … the causal effects of the introduction of female colleagues on men's job performance, behavior, and perceptions of … previously all-male units does not negatively affect men's performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions …
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,000 respondents across six countries, this paper explores the actual and perceived preferences of men for couple equity. We document … that in all six countries the majority of men state they prefer an equitable division of tasks within the household. At the … same time, the actual share of men preferring couple equity is systematically underestimated in all six countries. The …
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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