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This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …
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need for re-thinking gender equity within the emerging gender order across countries. …
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Since their inception in 1995, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Gender-Related Development Index (GDI …) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) have been criticized on conceptual and empirical grounds. In 2005-6, the UNDP's Human … adjusting the recommendations, making concrete proposals for two gender-related indicators, and presenting illustrative results …
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating … analysis to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment considerably reduce economic …
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Polanyi's work needs to be engendered in order to take into consideration women's and men's different links to the market and … force across the globe and the possible effects on women's behavior and on the construction of "economic woman." The …
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