Gender, formality, and entrepreneurial success

Autor: Armando José Garcia Pires, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge

Publikováno v: Small Business Economics. 55:881-900

In this paper, we address two entrepreneurship puzzles prevailing in developing countries. First, field experiments on business training programs and grants have shown that it is much more difficult to improve business outcomes for female entrepreneu

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00163-8

Elections and selfishness

Autor: Bertil Tungodden, Daniel N. Posner, Edward Miguel, Kelly Zhang, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Simon Galle, Kjetil Bjorvatn

Publikováno v: Electoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel N; Tungodden, Bertil; et al.(2019). Elections and Selfishness. UCLA: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6c55s38q

Elections affect the division of resources in society and are occasions for political elites to make appeals rooted in voters' self-interest. Hence, elections may erode altruistic norms and cause people to behave more selfishly. We test this intuitio

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Adverse Selection into Competition: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment in Tanzania

Autor: Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Bertil Tungodden, Vincent Somville, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Ingvild Almås

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

An influential literature has shown that women are less willing to compete than men, and the gender gap in competition may contribute to explaining gender differences in educational choices and labor market outcomes. This study reports from a large-s

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3696242

Gender composition and group dynamics: Evidence from a laboratory experiment with microfinance clients

Autor: Kartika Sari Juniwaty, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Linda Helgesson Sekei

Publikováno v: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 131:1-20

We investigate the effect of gender composition on the group dynamics of microfinance clients in Tanzania using a laboratory experiment. We focus on three dimensions: (i) the ability to collaborate ...

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.07.015

Reducing early pregnancy in low-income countries: A literature review and new evidence

Autor: A. M. Maalim, Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge, Vincent Somville, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Bertil Tungodden

Publikováno v: WIDER Working Paper ISBN: 9789292563592
WIDER Working Paper

Many adolescent girls in low-income countries face the challenge of early pregnancy and lifelong dependence upon family and partners. In this paper, we review the literature on field interventions aimed at reducing early pregnancies in low-income cou

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https://doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2017/359-2