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More women in tech? : evidence from a field experiment addressing social identity

Del Carpio, Lucía; Guadalupe, Maria - 2018

This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational …-selection patterns change. Analysis of those patterns suggests that identity considerations act as barriers to entering the technology … sector and that some high-cognitive skill women do not apply because of their high identity costs. …

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Take off the heater: Utility effect and food environment effect in food consumption decisions

Lombardini-Riipinen, Chiara; Lankoski, Leena - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment effect. To outline the utility effect, we first develop a new theoretical model of individual food consumption. Next, we introduce the food environment effect by showing how the...

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Intergenerational assimilation of minorities : the role of the majority group

Itoh, Ryo; Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenoux, Yves - 2021

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Ethnic Identity and Social Distance in Friendship Formation

De Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

the same type of agents might be weak even if the within-type link cost is very low; (ii) oppositional identity patterns …

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Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We build a theory of prosocial behaviour that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this ‘overjustification...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498047

Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2004

We build a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this overjustification...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548034

Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices

Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844

Purpose – This study seeks to explore the effect of social capital (SC) on knowledge management (KM) practices. The main problem under investigation is to assess the importance of SC within an organization and to ascertain how it can ensure that knowledge activities would continue to be...

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Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices

Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844

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Constructing gender differences in the economics lab

Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 741-752

We study the effects of experimental design on male and female behavior in a dictator game. Following social identity …

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