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This research challenges the stylized fact of a gender gap in financial literacy, i.e. the finding that women lag … behind men in this respect. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap, neither in …
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In several empirical contributions researchers have found a gender gap in preferences for public spending. This paper … analyzes the persistence of these gender gaps when income differences between individuals are taken into consideration. Using … survey data from the years 1996 and 2006 of German respondents, we show that gender gaps in preferences vanish when we …
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(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
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significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …
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Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
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We analyze spectral risk measures with respect to comparative risk aversion following Arrow (1965) and Pratt (1964) on the one hand, and Ross (1981) on the other hand. The implications for two standard financial decision problems, namely the willingness to pay for insurance and portfolio...
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they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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In the present paper I provide novel evidence on the formation of the gender pay gap with respect to directly measured …-level task information, I provide detailed evidence on the evolution of task contents and their gender-specific remuneration …
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This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...
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Exploiting a natural voting experiment we identify female preferences for real policy issues in the electorate. We then analyze whether female or male politicians in parliament more closely correspond to female preferences. Holding constant revealed constituent preferences, there is generally no...
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