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We provide evidence on a gender bias in risk aversion among students of economics in Spain. In a sample of 1947 …
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Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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Surveys, which measure firms’ experience of corruption and the gender of their owners and top managers. We find that women in …, ethically at least, good for business our research contributes to the literature on development, gender equality, and corruption …
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firms and losses due to crime, the results may suggest that the reason may be a gender bias in the incidence of crime. We …
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growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences arise …
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-performance work practices. On the other hand, gender, as an employee characteristic has not been much considered. However, according …. Specifically, it will be given special attention to gender as a potential determinant of participation in HPWS. To accomplish this …
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in the Italian normative occurred between 1993 and 1995 that reserved a gender quota in party lists for municipal … gender specific preferences in the society, we find no evidence that the allocation of resources among different spending … categories is affected by the gender of politicians. Our results are consistent with the Median voter theorem. Alternatively …
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asymmetrical gender relationships that prevail in Indian society. This leads to the imposition of a dual burden (of work and home …
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