Replication: Do women shy away from competition? Experimental evidence from China
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We investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a lab-in-the-field experiment and a subject pool consisting of Chinese adults following the design by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007). China provides an interesting environment to study since the country has promoted gender equality for a long time and the gender gap in earnings is small in cross-country comparisons. However, in many respects, China is still a patriarchal society. Our results show that women perform equally well as men in a piece-rate task and significantly better in a competitive payment environment.
Are People More Patient with Their Spouse’s Money? An Experimental Study
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We study how partners in a household make decisions for themselves and for their spouses regarding intertemporal choices in a field experiment in rural China. We find that men, but not women, make decisions that are more patient for their spouses compared with their predictions of their spouses’ decisions, in particular when choices involved two delayed options. Instead the decisions for their spouse are close to the decisions they made for themselves. At the same time, we find evidence of sorting of preferences within households, i.e.
Women's issues are not just women's issues
Today we celebrate International Women's Day. We do that to mark and celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and raise awareness about women's equality and…
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Gender |
Global Hub
EfD-Mak centre impact activities 2021
The year 2020/2021 was rocked by mainly two major challenges that disrupted the center activities. The declaration of the Corona Virus Diseases (COVID 19) a global pandemic and the measures to curb…
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Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Covid-19, Energy, Forestry, Gender, Health, Waste, Water |
Uganda
Boosting Climate-Smart Smallholder Farm Strategies and Household Outcomes through Joint Decision- Making by Men and Women in Agrarian Households in Arid Namibia
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In this uncertain era of climate change, any strategy that can increase farm yield in resource-poor, rain-fed, agriculture-dependent regions, like sub-Saharan Africa, should be explored. Our study takes place in Namibia, a typical sub-Saharan African country exhibiting dry and vulnerable characteristics. Our estimation strategy is robust to selection bias caused by unobserved systematic differences and further validated by robustness tests to estimate the impact of joint decision-making on farm productivity and household outcomes.
