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outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls. This change may be plausible in light of the reversal of the gender … the World Economic Forum's Gender Equity Index, or lower female labor force participation rates and higher sex (boy …
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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 …
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measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and … and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial …
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parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …
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mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we … present evidence on a randomly assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration … observed developmental gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. Our findings suggest that the program serves as a …
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differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six … to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences … were positively related to economic development and gender equality. This suggests that greater availability of and equal …
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Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...
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fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …
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when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the … supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...
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