how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …

how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …

Gender gaps in income and level of position in the workplace are widespread. One explanation for this inequality is … significant gender gap in competitive tasks that are perceived to favor men. In this paper, we use a verbal task that is perceived … to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype …

Experiment ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Gender … real effort experiment. We find that social incentives lead to a 20% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump … suggest that in the context of our experiment a dollar spent on social incentives is equivalent to increasing private …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …

males. We develop a theoretical approach to explore why there are gender differences in competitive behaviours and identify … selection from a pre-chosen pool of candidates. We suggest this as a way to contribute to closing the gender gap in …