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Marriage Age Affects Educational Gender Inequality: International Evidence

Stimpfle, Alexander; Stadelmann, David - 2016

This paper examines the effect of female age at marriage on female education and educational gender inequality. We … provide empirical evidence that early female marriage age significantly decreases female education with panel data from 1980 … effects of spousal age gaps between men and women significantly affect female education relative to male education. Each …

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Using reminders with different reward opportunities to reduce no-show behavior: Empirical evidence from a large-scale field experiment in professional sports

Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Torgler, Benno - 2020

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...

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Are Academics Messy? Testing the Broken Windows Theory with a Field Experiment in the Work Environment

Ramos, João; Torgler, Benno - 2009

We study the broken windows theory with a field experiment in a shared area of a workplace in academia (department common room). We explore academics' and postgraduate students' behaviour under an order condition (clean environment) and a disorder condition (messy environment). We find strong...

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Effects of supervision on tax compliance: Evidence from a field experiment in Austria

Gangl, Katharina; Torgler, Benno; Kirchler, Erich; … - 2013

The tax compliance literature has mainly focused on individual tax evasion rather than firm tax evasion. In general, there is a lack of field experiments on the topic, and measuring tax compliance is challenging. To address this shortcoming in the literature, we conduct a field experiment on...

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The Implications of Daylight Saving Time: A Field Experiment on Cognitive Performance and Risk Taking

Schaffner, Markus; Sarkar, Jayanta; Torgler, Benno; … - 2015

To explore the effects of daylights saving time (DST) transition on cognitive performance and risk-taking behaviour immediately before and one week after the shift to DST, this study examines two Australian populations living in similar geographic surroundings who experience either no DST...

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Negative Attitudes, Network and Education

Bennett, Patrick; La Cour, Lisbeth; Larsen, Birthe; … - 2015

different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases … immigrant education. …

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Impact Evaluation of an Incentive Program on Educational Achievement of Indigenous Students

Dulleck, Uwe; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana; Torgler, Benno - 2014

This article introduces the Fogs Artie program that attempts to close the gap in educational attainment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and provides an evaluation of its effectiveness. The program is of special interest as it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement...

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Do Female Representatives Adhere More Closely to Citizens' Preferences Than Male Representatives?

Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2012

referenda outcomes on the same issues, we identify the effect of gender on representatives' responsiveness to revealed … male parliamentarians. However, when party affiliation is controlled for, the effect of gender vanishes. These results are …

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Gender and Corruption: The Neglected Role of Culture

Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; … - 2016

sufficient to fully mitigate any association between gender and corruption. Our findings point out the importance of culture and …

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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020

In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...

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