Search Results - subject:"Gender Composition"

Female Leaders and the Representation of Women in Government

Potrafke, Niklas; Dörr, Luisa; Gründler, Klaus; … - 2025

Does electing female politicians increase women’s political representation? Using a difference-in-differences design on a comprehensive cross-national dataset, we find that the first election of a female incumbent systematically increases the share of women in government. To address selection...

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Female leaders and the representation of women in government

Potrafke, Niklas; Dörr, Luisa; Gründler, Klaus; … - 2025

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? The relation of birth order and siblings’ gender composition to economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; de Miranda, Katharina Lima - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 69 (2024) 1, pp. 1-31

study in an experiment how both birth order and siblings’ gender composition are related to risk, time, and social …, siblings’ gender composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second-born children are more risk-taking only … are larger with mixed-gender siblings. Only for patience, siblings’ gender composition does not matter. …

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Working together : effects of gender composition on job satisfaction and commitment

Katrín Ólafsdóttir; Arney Einarsdottir - In: Employee relations 46 (2024) 9, pp. 60-75

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? : the relation of birth order and siblings' gender composition to economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - In: Journal of risk and uncertainty 69 (2024) 1, pp. 1-31

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Working together: effects of gender composition on job satisfaction and commitment

Katrín Ólafsdóttir; Einarsdottir, Arney - In: Employee Relations: The International Journal 46 (2024) 9, pp. 60-75

Purpose The purpose of this study is to estimate the effects of gender composition in the workplace on employee job …, the effect is only significant for commitment. Practical implications Aiming for a balance in the gender composition of … effects of gender composition on job satisfaction and commitment. Previous papers have focused on job satisfaction. This paper …

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Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

the gender composition of majors. …

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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023

We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...

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Who Does the Talking Here? The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Interactions

Hardt, David; Mayer, Lea; Rincke, Johannes - 2023

We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign …

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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311225