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This article contributes to the growing scholarship on how ethnic inequality can dampen the provision of public goods and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population groups. On other hand, it moves away from the provision...
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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …. Second, male dictators appropriate a greater share of the pie than females and more is taken from known gender (male …
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What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can … treatment that involves reminding subjects of their gender. We found that, without priming, there were no statistically … different gender differences in the solidarity game. With priming, however, there was an increased willingness in women to …
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We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …
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remains unaffected. Remarkably, there is no gender gap in tournament performance when there are negative emotions …
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at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in … gender-specific effects. …
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Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and … Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can reduce their gender bias. We randomly selected two groups of husbands and … requested one group to make comments on gender-related laws and another group to write stories about gender equality. We find …
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related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …
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We study the effect of affirmative action on effort in an experiment conducted in high schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Queensland, Australia. All participating schools have a large representation of indigenous Australians, a population group that is frequently targeted by...
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Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness or conscious direction, yet there is reason to believe they may be influenced by social pressures. In this paper, I study social pressure as a motive to give, as well as giving itself under conditions of implicit bias. In doing so, I...
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