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Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …
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Förderung von Mikrounternehmen in Uganda: Geschäfte von Männern profitieren von Krediten kombiniert mit Schulungen
Fiala, Nathan; Janes, Laurin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 141-147
Microenterprises are the main source of income and employment for a majority of the world's poor. Developing appropriate programs to help microenterprises grow remains a challenging task. While injections of capital can often help start-ups, funding sustainable business expansion is clearly a...
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The role of emotions on risk aversion: A Prospect Theory experiment
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Cuilty, Emilio - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 50 (2014) C, pp. 1-9
This study measures risk and loss aversion using Prospect Theory and examines the impact of emotions on these parameters. Students’ emotions were manipulated using information on rising deaths due to drug violence in Mexico and youth unemployment and Tanaka et al. (2010) methodology was...
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Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon
Etang Ndip, Alvin; Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2009
In this paper we use experimental data collected in rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social distance on trust and altruism. Our measure of social distance is one that is relevant to everyday economic interactions: subjects in a Trust Game play with fellow villagers or with someone from a...
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The role of emotions on risk aversion: a prospect theory experiment
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Cuilty, Emilio - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2013
controlled experiment at two universities in Mexico City, using uncompensated students as research subjects, found results …
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The Role of Emotions on Risk Aversion: A prospect theory experiment
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Cuilty, Emilio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
controlled experiment at two universities in Mexico City, using uncompensated students as research subjects, found results …
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Motivating migrants: A field experiment on financial decision-making in transnational households
Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 119-127
habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13–17months later, we surveyed migrants and …
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, the discrimination detected in field experiments is less pervasive than that implied by the regression approach …
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Self-discrimination: A field experiment on obesity.
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Proestakis, Antonios - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2011
lower money requests by people who are self-reported as obese confirm our self-discrimination hypothesis, offering an … additional explanation for the wage gap; Thus, it seems that these obese people earn less not only because of discrimination …
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A matter of transient anonymity: Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions
von Essen, Emma; Karlsson, Jonas Karlsson - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013
This study shows that transient anonymity affects buyer discrimination based on seller’s gender and foreignness in … auction ends, the seller’s name is always disclosed to the buyer by eBay. We explore buyers’ discrimination in willingness to … pay, measured as price. Furthermore, we study how buyers’ discrimination in providing feedback is affected by sellers …
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