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Women do not play their aces : the consequences of shying away
Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015
The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We …
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Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...
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Looming large or seeming small? : attitudes towards losses in a representative sample
Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - 2022
We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N = 3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...
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Focusing and framing of risky alternatives
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wenzel, Tobias - 2017
This paper develops a theory of focusing and framing in an intertemporal context with risky choices. We provide a selection criterion between existing theories of fo- cusing by allowing a decision maker to choose her frame such that her attention is either drawn to salient events associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772689
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282340
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Nudging in education
Damgaard, Mette Trier; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2018
Can we nudge children, adolescents and their parents to make better decisions on education? And can we nudge teachers to support and encourage better decision making? Education decisions are taken at young ages and involve immediate costs and potential, future benefits. In such settings...
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Poverty Identity and Preference for Challenge : Evidence from the U.S. and India
Banker, Sachin - 2019
One's personal identity can play an important role in decision-making. We propose that a key identity that shapes behavior among poor populations is conceptualizing oneself as financially insecure, which we term “poverty identity.” Two experiments suggest that this identity can influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899673
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109
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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts
Tyler, John H. - 2002
This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...
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