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Virtual Servants: Stereotyping Female Front-Office Employees on the Internet
(2005)
This article focuses on the service providers of the future: virtual assistants on the Internet. Recent technological developments, supported by intensive
research on artificial intelligence, have enabled corporations to ...
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
(2019-05)
Education has been suggested as a ‘vaccine’ against HIV infection, but there is not much causal evidence behind this claim. Moreover, the few studies that exist on the impact of education on HIV infection and related ...
På väg mot jämställda arbetsresor? : Vardagens mobilitet i förändring och förhandling
(2013-09-24)
In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match ...
Managerial Positions and Generational Change. A study in the Health Care Sector of the Västra Götaland County
(2003)
The study highlights a number of circumstances that constitutes as incentives for changing the management within the health care sector. Today the physicians and the medical competence are not necessarily regarded as "the ...
Rural encounters with the city. A study of the gendered livelihood strategies of migrant youth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2021-11-17)
More than half of the world’s population growth will be accounted for by cities in the coming decades, with sub-Saharan Africa at the centre of this change. While studies have pointed to the disproportionate effects ...
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...
Skolan och informationstekniken – en fallstudie av grundskolan i Tingsryd
(2004)
This paper is the third of six case studies in a research project, “The school and in-formation technology (IT)”. This one is taking place in the compulsory school in the municipality of Tingsryd. The results of the study ...
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned
endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous
studies, we find that windfall endowments ...
Höganäs - en fallstudierapport om IT och skolan
(2004)
This paper is the fourth of six case studies in a research project ”The school and information- and communication technology (ICT)”. This one is taking place in the mu-nicipality of Höganäs. The results from the study can ...
Are women less effective leaders than men? Evidence from experiments using coordination games
(2020-11)
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female ...