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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …
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Female workers, male managers : gender, leadership, and risk-taking
Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2019
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male coaches show a lower level of risk-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped...
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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019
We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978663
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Asset integration, risk taking and loss aversion in the laboratory
Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2019
We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided by the experimenter is viewed as a real loss by experimental participants. Our experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997618
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Willingness to take risk : the role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2018
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of...
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Managers' risk preferences and firm training investments
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive. Risk-averse managers are expected to select...
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Rank, stress, and risk : a conjecture
Stark, Oded; Wlodarczyk, Julia - 2024
A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...
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Extreme weather events and climate change : economic impacts and adaptation policies
Ferreira, Susana - 2024
This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events … suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes suggests adaptation, knowledge gaps remain, and little is known about … recommended when uncertainties over climate change impacts are high. I discuss how governments can play an important role in …
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal … identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013 …
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Climate variability and international migration : the importance of the agricultural linkage
Cai, Ruohong; Feng, Shuaizhang; Pytlikova, Mariola; … - 2014
While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context … temperature and international outmigration only in the most agriculture-dependent countries, consistent with the widely … especially temperature-sensitive. Policies to address issues related to climate-induced international migration would be more …
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