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In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of...
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Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
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three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience … that are predicted by a higher number of children. The results are robust to controlling for age, education, income …
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document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of … study fields leading to "pink collar" jobs, such as education and social work. They also display a specific choice of work …
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generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Recent decades have seen a surge in local interior immigration enforcement. In this paper we examine a little discussed, but potentially important, spillover effect of enforcement policies: changes in high-skilled citizen women's labor supply due to changes in the cost of outsourcing household...
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vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … constitutes a case in point. However, little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising …, we examine the efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews …
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the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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