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Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?
(2017-11)
A large body of evidence documents systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential
implication of this literature is that ...
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures
based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera-
tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ...
Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
(2017-02)
We test the effect of framing of a menu on the choice of ordering climate friendly dishes in a
randomized controlled experiment. Rearranging the menu in favor of vegetarian food has a
large and significant effect on the ...
Nudging to reduce meat consumption: Immediate and persistent effects of an intervention at a university restaurant
(2017-11)
Changing dietary habits to reduce the consumption of meat is considered to have great potential to mitigate food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To test if nudging can increase the consumption of vegetarian food, ...
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
(2017-05)
In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ...
Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
(2017-02)
This paper analyzes the effects of maternal employment and non-parental child care on child cognitive development, taking into account the mother's time allocation between leisure and child-care time. I estimate a behavioral ...
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)
We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ...
Education, norms, and gender equality
(2017-06)
Despite major developments in gender equality, differences between men and women’s economic and social behaviors remain. Several studies demonstrate the importance of gender norms in explaining a significant part of the ...
Competitive Neutrality and the Cost and Quality of Welfare Services
(2017-08)
Competition between private and public firms can increase service quality and reduce public costs in markets for tax-financed welfare services with non-contractible quality. Synergies arise from combining high-powered ...
How long do you think it will take? Field Evidence on Gender Differences in Time Optimism
(2017-02)
Evidence from ten natural field studies comparing long-distance runners' incentivized predictions of race finishing time with their actual finishing time is reported. A modest but regular bias is found.
Male runners are ...