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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms : An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India
Donati, Dante; Orozco-Olvera, Victor; Rao, Nandan - 2022
through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women (VAW) in …
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Stereotypes Applied in Designing Cartoons Depicting Women in Politics in Kenya-Case Study of the Daily Nation’s Gado Cartoons
Mararo, Francis Maina; Mberia, Hellen K. - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 9, pp. 275-288
The objective of this study was to explore the use of gender stereotypes in designing cartoons targeting women in … gendered messages often ignored perhaps because cartoons tend to be humorous and satirical concealing the irony, satire and the … using content analysis analyzing 20 gendered cartoons. Whether intended or otherwise, gendered messages were portrayed even …
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...
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Do Social Incentives Matter? Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2013) January
Money matters, but is that all? This column presents evidence that social incentives can boost productivity in sectors that rely on pro-social behaviour such as health, education, and social care. It argues that this may help explain the growing popularity of Corporate Social Responsibility...
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market,compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level...
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Female presence on corporate boards: a multi-country study of environmental context
Terjesen, Siri - 2008
A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263860
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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294288
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Cross-Country Comparison of the Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation in Germany and Qatar: An Empirical Study among Business Students
Schmidt, Maria Anne; Cracau, Daniel - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2015
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a phenomenon of increasing interest. Today, it is practiced in most countries around the globe and studied in various fields of academia. However, the focus still lies on Western developed countries, their understanding, and implementation of CSR. This...
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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family
Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013
This study adapts a multi-level view of culture, including society- and family-based gender norms and the family embeddedness perspective, to predict the career status of a sample of 2897 young Europeans (aged 18–35) from 11 countries, with at least one self-employed parent. We find that...
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