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Gender Differences in Inter Vivos Transfers
Loxton, Abigail - 2019
To what extent do parents exhibit preferential treatment for one gender with respect to financial gifts to children …
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Sibling rivalry in educational attainment : the German case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336863
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Gender role models and early career decisions
Löwe, Monique; Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2021
gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education's moderating effect …This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493866
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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanisms
Koppel, Hannes (contributor);  … - 2008
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made directly. This points to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781040
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Inefficient but effective? : a field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanism
Koppel, Hannes; Schulze, Günther G. - 2008
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made directly. This points to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864434
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Choosing your object of benevolence : a field experiment on donation options
Aretz, Bodo; Kube, Sebastian - 2010
In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the target country for their donations. We find that only a small fraction of donors use the option, which might reflect a reluctance to consider tradeoffs when those concern important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946285
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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2015 - This version: December 12, 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
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Comparing charitable fundraising schemes : evidence from a field experiment and a structural model
Huck, Steffen; Rasul, Imran; Shephard, Andrew - 2012
We present evidence from a natural field experiment and structural model designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera, we mailed 25,000 opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630088