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5,000 Americans. Our data provide strong evidence of a gender bias against low-performing males, particularly among … female participants. A large set of additional treatments establishes that the gender bias reflects statistical fairness …
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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality. Using newly-collected, nationally … representative datasets from 60 countries covering 80% of the world population, this paper studies gender norms on two policy issues …: basic rights, allowing women to work outside of the home, and affirmative action, prioritizing women when hiring for …
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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender … norms on two distinct policy issues: 1) basic rights, allowing women to work outside of the home, and 2) affirmative action …
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This paper analyses the welfare effects of a change from centralized to decentralized political authority. The potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather "extreme" preferences may win the vote and implement policies that harm the...
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We conduct a large-scale intercultural experiment to elicit competitiveness and ask whether individual and gender … gender gap in competitiveness in all cultures. However, we find inconsistent results when comparing the competitiveness of … handedness or footedness. In Tanzania, we find no effect of handedness or footedness on the competitiveness of either gender. The …
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