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A signal to end child marriage : theory and experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Buchmann, Nina; Field, Erica Marie; Glennerster, Rachel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a … signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show … that in this environment the market might pool on early marriage even when everyone would benefit from delay. In this …
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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector
Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...
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Gender-Neutral Language and Gender Disparities
Cohen, Alma; Karelitz, Tzur; Kricheli-Katz, Tamar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates empirically whether and how the use of gender-neutral language affects the performance of women and men in real high-stakes exams. We make use of a natural experiment in which the institute administering Israel's standardized college admission tests amended the language...
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Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations
Brown, Alexander L. - 2013
Why do individuals volunteer their time even when recipients receive far less value than the donor's opportunity cost? Previous models of altruism that focus on the overall impact of a gift cannot rationalize this behavior, despite its prevalence. We develop a model that relaxes this assumption,...
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Are preferences for work reference dependent or time nonseparable? : new experimental evidence
Cosaert, Sam; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Martin, Ludivine - In: European economic review : EER 148 (2022), pp. 1-23
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Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency : A Triple Experimental Investigation
Afzal, Uzma - 2018
We conduct two lab experiments and one field experiment to investigate demand for consumption agency in married couples. The evidence we uncover is consistent across all three experiments. Subjects are often no better at guessing their spouse's preferences than those of a stranger, and many...
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Women's empowerment and domestic abuse : experimental evidence from Vietnam
Bulte, Erwin H.; Lensink, Robert - In: European economic review : EER 115 (2019), pp. 172-191
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Women's Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency : Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Most studies of intrahousehold resource allocation examine outcomes and do not consider the decision-making process by which those outcomes are achieved. We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and...
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'Acting Wife' : Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two field experiments in an elite U.S. MBA …
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War Does not Foster Cooperation when Neoclassical Mechanisms are Absent! Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and the mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the...
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