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This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions,...
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There is a large and diverse body of evidence that people condition their behavior on the characteristics of others. If type is visible then one agent seeing another with whom they are interacting, or observing some other close proxy for type, can affect outcomes. We explore the economics of...
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document a roughly 7% gender earnings gap amongst drivers. We completely explain this gap and show that it can be entirely … attributed to three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where to work (driven largely by … are differentially affected by a taste for specific hours, a return to within-week work intensity, or customer …
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observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … regime in that women disproportionately shy away from competitive work settings. Yet, there are important factors that … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
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Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women become less generous when it becomes easy to avoid the...
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One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …
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