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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269854
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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059078
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568297
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Checkerboards and Coase: Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
Akee, Randall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822319
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What Did the Old Poor Law Really Accomplish? A Redux
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the evolving effects of England's Old Poor Law (1601-1834). It establishes that poor relief reduced social unrest from around the late-17th century through the turn of the 19th century, at which point it began to spur population growth and its social stability effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658707
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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660254
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267547
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268511
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat - 2013
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319409