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A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …. Most experimental economics research has found that women are more generous than men. Evidence also suggests that gender … homegrown, we replicate the finding. When expectations of receiving are uniform rather than homegrown, gender differences in …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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This paper examines some of the consequences for economic theory of the replacement of binary personal preferences by non-binary personal preferences in an Arrow-Debreu society as in Debreu (1959), and reaches the conclusion that there is both much damage to existing theory and greater...
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Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …
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This paper studies models where the optimal response functions under consideration are non-increasing in endogenous variables, and weakly increasing in exogenous parameters. Such models include games with strategic substitutes, and include cases where additionally, some variables may be...
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In this paper an attempt has been taken to describe various types of voting system and manipulation of them. French philosophers Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) and Jeans-Charles Borda (1733-1799) introduced modern voting system. Duncan Black first introduced the manipulation of voting in 1958...
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became clear that a change of regime through the ballot box was impossible, in view of the consolidation of this dictatorship …
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The majority rule and the hierarchically dictatorial rule are both characterized when preferences are defined over two alternatives. The majority rule is characterized in terms of seven axioms. The hierarchically dictatorial rule is characterized in terms of six of these seven axioms and the...
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The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, the poor have no incentive for regime transformation and authoritarian …
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