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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153309
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960262
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842042
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134986
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050629
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Does it Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073512
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Gender Differences in Altruism : Responses to a Natural Disaster
Lilley, Matthew - 2016
High-profile disasters can cause large spikes in philanthropy and volunteerism. By providing temporary positive shocks to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001303
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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
Deckers, Thomas - 2017
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942093