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What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books
Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023
analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely …Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We … of, and demand for, books with different levels of representation to better understand the economic behavior that may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296802
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Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786932
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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Ferman, Bruno; Sant’Anna, Pedro C. - 2023
. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296622
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Women's Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
Anukriti, S; Erten, Bilge; Mukherjee, Priya - 2022
We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents in rural areas report experiencing physical violence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351934
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Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing
Jaeger, David A.; Joyce, Theodore J.; Kaestner, Robert - 2016
We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and Levine, American Economic Review 2015). We find Kearney and Levine's identification strategy to be...
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Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
McDool, Emily; Powell, Philip; Roberts, Jennifer; … - 2016
Childhood circumstances and behaviours have been shown to have important persistent effects in later life. One aspect of childhood that has changed dramatically in the past decade, and is causing concern among policy makers and other bodies responsible for safeguarding children, is the advent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653140
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Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
McNamee, Paul; Mendolia, Silvia; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2019
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in economics to analyse the effect of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180027
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Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
-to-treat analysis, we demonstrated that randomly allowing people to misrepresent their gender identity information reduced the aggregate … go on to defect than participants in the control and the true gender groups, those who were paired with a potential … their gender received a payoff of zero from the prisoner's dilemma game. Our results suggest that even small short …
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Don't Downsize This! Social Reactions to Mass Dismissals on Twitter
Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Ferreira, Bruno Chaves; … - 2020
We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...
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Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool: Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots
Beam, Emily A. - 2022
Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about access and data quality impede their use in global research. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to test the effectiveness of web-form and chatbot surveys of K–12 teachers recruited through social...
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