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What we teach about race and gender : representation in images and text of children's books
Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023
analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely …Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We … of, and demand for, books with different levels of representation to better understand the economic behavior that may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249945
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Discrimination in the formation of academic networks : a field experiment on #EconTwitter
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bruno Ferman, Bruno; Sant'Anna, Pedro C. - 2023
. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness and education expenditure : evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738837
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Women's political representation and intimate partner violence
Anukriti, S; Erten, Bilge; Mukherjee, Priya - 2022
We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents in rural areas report experiencing physical violence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273665
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Social media extensive use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence : evidence from British longitudinal data
McNamee, Paul; Mendolia, Silvia; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2019
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in economics to analyse the effect of social...
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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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Viral altruism? : generosity and social contagion in online networks
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - 2014
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...
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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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Large losses from little lies: randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
-to-treat analysis, we demonstrated that randomly allowing people to misrepresent their gender identity information reduced the aggregate … go on to defect than participants in the control and the true gender groups, those who were paired with a potential … their gender received a payoff of zero from the prisoner's dilemma game. Our results suggest that even small short …
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Don't downsize this! : social reactions to mass dismissals on Twitter
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Chaves Ferreira, Bruno; … - 2020
We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...
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