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Publikováno v:
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy. 40:351-355
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Jungmin Lee
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 187:431-447
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a long-running Korean television quiz show. There is a significant gender gap in performance – in favour of boys – when we pool all round 1 episodes of the q
Publikováno v:
ILR Review. 75:974-1000
Using a panel survey, the authors investigate how the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China is affected by trade union presence at the workplace. Controlling for individual fixed effects, they find the following. Relative to workers from wo
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Patrick Nolen
Publikováno v:
Economica. 89
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Fiona Mary Cameron
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Event and Festival Management. 11:223-238
PurposeFamily participation in community events and festivals is framed by certain conditions related to their ability to enhance their quality of life (QOL) and family flourishing. For communities to flourish, families must feel safe, secure, accept
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Dennis J. Snower
Technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. There is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled, and it is recognised that this deficienc
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 168:109-126
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the educational attainment of students within a coeducational university. Before students arrived on campus, we randomly assigned them to all-female, all-male, and coed classes, and thereby avoid the sel
Autor:
Patrick J. Nolen, Alison L. Booth
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it has been suggested that these may arise because men and women respond differently to psychological pressure in competitive environme
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Patrick J. Nolen
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Autor:
Alison L. Booth, Eiji Yamamura
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100:581-593
In speedboat racing in Japan, men and women compete under the same conditions and are randomly assigned to mixed-sex or single-sex groups for each race. We use a sample of over 140,000 individual-level records to examine how male-dominated circumstan