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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015

There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...

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Economic geography of contagion: a study on COVID-19 outbreak in India

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2021

contagion needs to be heterogeneous across India, depending on the ex-ante economic structure of a region. …

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Peers, gender, and long-term depression

Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...

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Occupational exposure to contagion and the spread of COVID-19 in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020

occupational exposure to contagion driven by social contacts. I combined six indicators based on Occupation Information Network (O … cross-country differences in levels of exposure to contagion in comparable occupations. The resulting country-level measures … of levels of exposure to contagion (excluding health professions) predict the growth in COVID-19 cases, and the number of …

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The gender dimension of occupational exposure to contagion in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Magda, Iga - 2020

-contact route. We show that in Europe, women are more exposed to contagion, as they are more likely than men to work in occupations … important factor in workers' exposure to contagion than their education or age. This gender difference in exposure can be … require more interpersonal interactions. While workers in Southern European countries are the most exposed to contagion, the …

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Firm-size wage gaps along the formal-informal divide : theory and evidence

Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Industrial Relations, 2016

Observationally equivalent workers are paid higher wages in larger firms. This fact is often named as the "firm-size wage gap" and is regarded as a key empirical puzzle. Using micro-level data from Turkey, we document a new stylized fact: the firm-size wage gap is more pronounced for informal...

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Do social networks improve Chinese adults' subjective well-being?

Lei, Xiaoyan; Shen, Yan; Smith, James P.; Zhou, Guangsu - 2015

This paper studies relationships between social networks, health and subjective well-being (SWB) using nationally representative data of the Chinese Population - the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS). Our data contain SWB indicators in two widely used variants - happiness and...

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Do parental networks pay off? : linking children's labor-market outcomes to their parents' friends

Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2015

This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in...

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Coworkers, networks, and job search outcomes

Saygin, Perihan Ozge; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle A. - 2014

Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of displaced workers. We base our analysis on administrative records for the universe of private sector...

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Adjusting your dreams? : the effect of school and peers on dropout behaviour

Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - 2014

At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to dropout from high-school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achieving...

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