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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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aggregates experimental findings over the last twenty years. The experts' survey indicates beliefs that men are overconfident and … women under-confident. Yet, the literature reveals that both men and women are typically overconfident. Moreover, the model …
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It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric...
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We document new facts on the distribution of male fertility and its relationship with men's labor market outcomes … substantial share of men being "left behind" and fewer men experiencing a larger share of the population's new births. We use firm … bankruptcies as a source of variation in job loss and earnings to provide robust evidence that men experiencing negative labor …
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men's entry and the nature of men's sorting into female-dominated occupations. I modify the content of recruitment … returns to ability. I find that perceived gender shares do not affect men's applications, while increasing expected returns to … ability encourages men to apply and improves the average quality of the applicants. This allows the employer to hire more …
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Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
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