of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

Despite the empirical relevance of advertising strategies in concentrated markets, the economics literature is largely … silent on the effect of persuasive advertising strategies on pricing and market structure and increasing (or decreasing …) dominance. We propose a simple model of persuasive advertising and pricing with differentiated goods and analyze the …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … themselves, nor for their group. For men, on the other hand, we find that the ones who would like to lead tend to take more risk …

We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and … representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the … elastic behaviour of men. These developments are important for the analysis of deadweight losses of taxation as well as the …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …

This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases … teachers increases. The positive same-gender effect on test scores is counteracted by a negative assessment effect. That is …

of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …