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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488294
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The inelastic demand for affirmative action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic …
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The impact of advanced metering infrastructure on residential electricity consumption : evidence from California
Paschmann, Martin; Paulus, Simon - 2017
One important pillar in the debate about energy-saving measures addresses energy conservation. In this paper, we focus on the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure to reduce the impact of limited information and bounded rationality of consumers. For California, we empirically analyze...
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Self-control, financial literacy and the co-holding puzzle
Gathergood, John; Weber, Joerg - 2012
We use UK household survey data incorporating measures of financial literacy and behavioural characteristics to analyse the puzzling co-existence of high cost revolving consumer credit alongside low yield liquid savings in household balance sheets, which we term the 'co-holding puzzle'....
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Paying more for less : why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts?
Dillon, Brian; De Weerdt, Joachim; O'Donoghue, Ted - 2017
Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases by 1,499 households over two weeks, we find that through bulk purchasing the average...
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Systematic mistakes in the mortgage market and lack of financial sophistication
Agarwal, Sumit; Ben-David, Itzhak; Yao, Wenxiong - 2016
Institutions often offer a menu of contracts to consumers in an attempt to create a separating equilibrium that reveals borrower types and provides better pricing. We test the effectiveness of a specific set of contracts in the mortgage market: mortgage points. Points allow borrowers to exchange...
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The role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana. The assessment is made by using pooled data and two stage least squares. The exposition builds from the 7th (GLSS7) and 6th (GLSS6) rounds focusing on the Ghana Living...
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Marriage as an argument for energy poverty reduction : the moderating role of financial inclusion
Asongu, Simplice; Ogbonna, Amarachi O.; Mete, Mariette C. N. - 2024
The present research extends the extant literature by investigating the hypothesis on whether marriage can be a substitute for financial inclusion in energy poverty reduction in Ghana. Pooled data and two stage least squares techniques are used in the estimation process and the validity of the...
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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking : comparing children in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von - 2010 - Rev. June 3, 2011
We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running,...
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
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