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Gender and birth-order differences in time and risk preferences and decisions
(2009-10-05)We study how gender, birth order, and number of siblings are related to stated time and risk preferences and to real-life decisions. We use survey data covering about 2,300 individuals and find that time and risk preferences ... -
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ... -
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ... -
Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-07)In 1995, Colombia signed the first legally binding international treaty that criminalizes all forms of violence against women. After this, the government took a number of steps to improve laws and policies, but progress ... -
The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors
(2008-09-15)This study examines gender wage differentials across the wage distribution in the Swedish private and public sectors using quantile regression. Women have lower wages than men across the entire wage distribution. The gender ... -
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
(2010-05-18)Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and ... -
Gender, Risk and Stereotypes
(2006)This paper reports results from an economic experiment where respondents are asked to make choices between risky outcomes for themselves and others. In addition, we elicit information about the respondents’ perception of ... -
Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)Experimental results from student or other non-representative convenience samples often suggest that men, on average, are more risk-taking and competitive than women. Here we explore whether these gender preference gaps ... -
General Properties of Expected Demand Functions: Negativity (No Giffen Good) and Homogeneity - A Descriptive Non Utility Maximizing Approach
(2010-09)In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made in the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that negativity (()0xExp∂<∂) ... -
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2016-01)Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their own consumption relative to that of others. Yet, conspicuous consumption and the corresponding social costs have so far been ... -
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2014-11)Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their consumption in relation to the consumption of others. Yet, the social costs of conspicuous consumption have so far played little ... -
Geography and Institutions: A Review of Plausible and Implausible Linkages
(2003)In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude ... -
Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others Poor
(2004)The most important event in human economic history before the Industrial Revolution was the Neolithic transition from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to sedentary agriculture, beginning about 10,000 years ago. The ... -
Get Shorty? - Market Impact of the 2008-09 U.K. Short Selling Ban
(2009-06-11)In September 2008, during one of the most intense periods of the financial crisis, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) decided to ban short-selling in financial stocks during four months in the U.K. market. The aim of ... -
Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism
(2004)Global environmental problems are often assumed to imply extensive inefficiencies since there is no global authority corresponding to the government at a national level. This paper shows, on the contrary, that rich countries ... -
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific Revival
(2003)This paper reviews evidence on the evolution of international economic integration of Asia-Pacific countries, and discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some ... -
Globalization and Inter-occupational Inequality in a Panel of Countries: 1983-2003
(2008-04-23)How does globalization affect inter-occupational wage inequality within countries? This paper empirically examines this issue by focusing on two dimensions of globalization, openness to trade and openness to capital, using ... -
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ... -
Göteborgsskolan - praktisk, friakademisk, historisk, fortbildande, social
(2006)Göteborgarna har alltid känt sig mer eller mindre missgynnade av staten, det gäller inte minst den högre utbildningen alltsedan Lund konkurrerade ut Göteborg vid tillkomsten av landets andra universitet. Nästan alla skolor ... -
Grit Trumps Talent? An experimental approach
(2015-10)Perseverance to accomplish long-term goals, also know as grit, is a crucial determinant for success in life. In the present study we introduce an innovative laboratory design to elicit grit in an incentivized and controlled ...