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Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it?

Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne; Baum, Sandy - In: Feminist Economics 14 (2008) 3, pp. 23-50

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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Reforming the Gender-Related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure: Implementing Some Specific Proposals

Klasen, Stephan; Schuler, Dana - In: Feminist Economics 17 (2011) 1, pp. 1-30

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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The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education and Employment on Economic Growth: New Evidence for a Panel of Countries

Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 91-132

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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Gender, market and community on femecon in May and June 1994

Gudeman, Roxane Harvey; Gudeman, Stephen - In: Feminist Economics 2 (1996) 2, pp. 1-39

. We examine gender in relation to participation in these discussions and in relation to Femecon as a feminist community …

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Competition/Cooperation: Revisiting the May 1994 Femecon Debates

Gudeman, Roxane Harvey; Gudeman, Stephen - In: Feminist Economics 3 (1997) 1, pp. 131-142

This response to several comments on our prior article concerning the May 1994 Femecon debate takes issue with views that equate patriarchy with the market and feminism with community, for each partakes and participates in the other. Opposing the use of simple dualities, we suggest that feminist...

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