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This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …
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We analyse the effects of government sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...
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-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. …
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This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
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-efficiency. Our model can be used for examine several implications of gender differences. For example, if shocks are more variable for …
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This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP …). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising increases men … not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter’s observable attributes. Effective … strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to reconcile the …
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We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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