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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

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Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation

Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...

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Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey … questions on knowledge of the existence of HIV, HIV prevention, HIV stigma, intended pregnancy, and risk perceptions of engaging … in unprotected sex. We observe a large HIV knowledge gap between males and females. Moreover, across the sexes different …

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