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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Benedicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2009

We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general … health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow … us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won is largely exogenous. These …

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Exploring gender discrimination : a multi-trial field experiment in urban Ecuador

Zanoni, Wladimir; Duryea, Suzanne; Paredes, Jorge - 2024

In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field experiment with 392 recruiters evaluating observationally...

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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2023

health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during …

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The effect of risk, ambiguity and coordination on farmers' adaptation to climate change : a framed field experiment

Alpízar, Francisco; Carlsson, Frederik; Naranjo, Maria - 2010

The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable...

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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 L.; 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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Work and health in Switzerland : immigrants and natives

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor market outcomes and healthcare utilization. The evidence is based on data for 1999 from the first wave of the Swiss Household Panel. In order to control for confounding...

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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment in retail

Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019

gathered by the firm and through two skills surveys. The Identification exploits the experimental design in the context of a …

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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance

Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...

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