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Gender Differences in Shirking : Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Johansson, Per - 2014
. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers' absence …
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The Asymmetry of Population Ethics : Experimental Social Choice and Dual-Process Moral Reasoning
Spears, Dean - 2019
relevant. Each experiment shows evidence (among at least some participants) of dual-process moral reasoning, in which cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863817
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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment
Sutter, Matthias - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141434
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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty : Experimental Evidence from India
Bedi, Arjun S. - 2018
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925511
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Social Networks, Gender Norms and Women's Labor Supply : Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241093
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Gender Differences in Altruism : Responses to a Natural Disaster
Lilley, Matthew - 2016
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 heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001303
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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
John, Katrin - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946582
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Voting with Feet : Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Gürerk, Özgür - 2010
Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149693
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Self-Reported Health and Gender : The Role of Social Norms
Caroli, Eve - 2016
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000075
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The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
Kuhn, Andreas - 2020
We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade...
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