Showing 1 - 10 of 1,202
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
discrimination on the productivity of online sales agents in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a novel framework that randomly varies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447319
experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388789
Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental evidence on land market participation is virtually non-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388851
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372476
, GPA, and course/major taking. We present a framework showing how anticipated discrimination in the labor market can … students, particularly in STEM, Business, and Economics, will face labor market discrimination which makes them less likely to … mask. Our survey allows us to distinguish between anticipated discrimination and other explanations which could contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477257
and men in real high-stakes exams. We make use of a natural experiment in which the institute administering Israel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322787
Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers … examines tastes for discrimination directly, or considers people's willingness to trade off other characteristics to indulge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475211
We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from … the US, India, and Africa are matched in pairs within and, in some cases, across countries. Employers make a one … by conditional reciprocity or by intrinsic motivation. Subjects from India and Africa are more likely to follow intrinsic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362026
reduces the informativeness of experiments. A simple structural model suggests that for a typical experiment, using a balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477237