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Can private food standards promote gender equality in the small farm sector?

Meemken, Eva-Marie; Qaim, Matin - 2017

certification programs increase wealth in male-headed and female-headed households. In male-headed households, standards also change … on gender equality. We explore whether private food standards - with their particular elements to regulate production and … coffee producers in Uganda and focus on two sustainability standards that explicitly address gender issues, namely Fairtrade …

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Gender and educational variations in the earnings premiums of occupational credentials

Kim, Jeounghee; Chatterji, Sangeeta - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 20 (2020) 3, pp. 1-21

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Assessing gender inequality in digital labour platforms in Europe

Rodríguez-Modroño, Paula; Pesole, Annarosa; … - In: Internet policy review : journal on internet regulation 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

In this article we analyse digital labour platforms from a feminist approach, revealing the pervasiveness of gender inequalities through segregation and the highly asymmetrical model of gender relations and social reproduction. Our findings after examining data from the COLLEEM survey on...

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Does it matter how happiness is measured? Evidence from a randomized controlled experiment

Studer, Raphael - 2011

A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative survey. A randomized controlled experiment enables unique analyses on data quality and distributions, which suggest superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about...

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The devil is in the details: sex differences in simple bargaining games

León-Mejía, Ana; Miller, Luis M. - 2007

differences. In this paper we test this hypothesis by making male and female participants to face two different but related …

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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey

Dohmen, Thomas - 2005

take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test …

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Gender, affect and intertemporal consistency: an experimental approach

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2007

We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a manipulation to identify the role of positive and...

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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...

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Gender differences in risk behaviour: does nurture matter?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009

students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, our controlled experiment gave subjects an …

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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

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