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Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2023

to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …

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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Help, Prejudice and Headscarves

Artavia-Mora, Luis - 2018

This paper employs a natural field experiment in the Netherlands to test whether individuals intuitively help strangers with different group identities. We implement time manipulations in an everyday task to stimulate intuitive versus deliberate decision-making and thereafter examine helpfulness...

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Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

van Ham, Maarten - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Can Gender Differences in Distributional Preferences Explain Gender Gaps in Competition?

Mani, Subha - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...

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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions : An Experiment in Rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie - 2020

Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2014

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

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Financial integration within EU countries : the role of institutions, confidence and trust

Ekinci, Mehmet Fatih; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorenson, Bent - 2007

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