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Cognitive (Ir)reflection: New Experimental Evidence

Herrero, Carlos Cueva; Kortajarene, Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2015

We study whether cognitive ability explains choices in a wide variety of behavioral tasks, including riskand social preferences, by collecting evidence from almost 1,200 subjects across eight experimentalprojects. Since Frederick (2005)'s Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has been administered to...

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Du « bon usage » des réseaux sociaux en entreprise : le cas de figure des cadres-femmes aux Etats-Unis

Bruna, Maria Giuseppina - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Adopting a neo-structural perspective (Moore, 1990; Ibarra, 1995; Burt, 1995, 1998; Lin, 1995; Lazega, 2011, 2012), the present paper investigates the societal and organizational resistances (structural effect) and the relational biases (networking effect) hindering the professional advancement of...

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Gender Disparities in Water Resource Management Projects in Njoro Sub-County, Kenya

Wambu Charles K.; Kindiki, Moses - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 3 (2015) 2, pp. 123-129

Gender disparities are of major concern, in water resources management because men and women play different roles and … an economic good and a cost attached to its development, distribution, operation and maintenance there has been gender … committees. The argument in this paper is that gender disparities may have resulted in overexploitation and mismanagement of …

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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study

O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …

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Job autonomy and job satisfaction: new evidence

Taylor, J; Bradley, S; Nguyen, A N - Department of Economics, Management School - 2003

This paper investigates the impact of perceived job autonomy on job satisfaction. We use the fifth sweep of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988-2000), which contains personally reported job satisfaction data for a sample of individuals eight years after the end of compulsory...

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The workers are not horses: analytical perspectives, economic theories and welfare policy

Antonella, Picchio - In: Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP) (2008) 3, pp. 271-310

The objective of this paper is to argue that welfare policies are undermined not only by a lack of pubblic resources and efficiency, but also by a reductive analytical perspective on the life-cycle process of social reproduction of real men and women. In the economic framework, daily lives...

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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms

Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2015

diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …

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Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace

Mumford, Karen A.; Smith, Peter N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …

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The determinants of housework time

Stratton, Leslie S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) March, pp. 1-10

driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …

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Effects of Competitive Learning Strategy on Secondary School Students Learning Outcomes: Implications for Counselling

Okereke, Chinwe; Ugwuegbulam, Charles N. - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 3 (2014) 2, pp. 137-143

This study sought to find out the effects of competitive learning strategy on secondary school students learning outcomes in chemistry. Two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design. There were 337 senior secondary students II (SSS II)...

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