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Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They … refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns “he,” “she,” or the gender-inclusive singular “they.” In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …
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Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They … refer to each of these personal entity nouns using the pronouns "he," "she," or the gender-inclusive singular "they." In … languages with grammatical gender, the nouns and the grammatical structure they are embedded in mark them as either male, female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377434
We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …
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The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … precise mechanisms behind the gender difference in competitive responsiveness are still not fully uncovered. In this paper, we … competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …
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]sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In … differently if their self-reported gender matched the grammatical gender used in the instructions. The results reveal that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348102
We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers’, with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers’ labor …
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We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … perceived honesty matters and men's truthfulness rises way beyond the level of women. To elaborate on these gender differences …
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This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...
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