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Decision Making

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Decision Making

Employers, communities, and households benefit when women have greater opportunity and agency. However, Women are typically under-represented in decision making positions across the world. Examine how gender affects decision-making and discover the procedures that help all people become better decision makers.

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

One-day financial education training programs may be cost-effective interventions for improving the financial behaviors of women from poor households.

Aditi Bhutoria, Anna Vignoles (2018)

Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

Representation of women in decision making groups increases the likelihood that climate policy interventions will be effective and that the benefits of the interventions will be shared equally.

Nathan J. Cook, Tara Grillos, Krister P. Andersson (2019)

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Innovative research by women is underfunded because of gender differences in writing style.

Julian Kolev, Yuly Fuentes-Medel, Fiona E. Murray (2019)

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Reminders of historic injustices against women increase men’s denial of current gender discrimination, thereby decreasing their support for employment equity policies that aim to promote the hiring of women.

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

During group deliberations, the act of expressing anger increases a man’s influence but decreases a woman’s influence.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene (2015)

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A radio program in Mexico decreased personal and perceived social acceptance of violence against women.

Eric Arias (2019)

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

When seeking investors via crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs benefit from the stereotype that they are more trustworthy than male entrepreneurs.

Michael A. Johnson, Regan M. Stevenson, Chaim R. Letwin (2018)

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Single, career-driven women feel the pressure to “act wife”, downplaying professionally beneficial qualities like ambition, in order to reduce negative perceptions from potential male partners.

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, Amanda Pallais (2017)

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

In the high-tech industry, women without technical expertise are less likely to be awarded venture capital than their male counterparts who lack this same technical expertise. This gender gap does not exist when comparing men and women who both possess technical skill.

Justine Tinkler, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, Andrea Rees Davies (2015)

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

Representation of women in decision making groups increases the likelihood that climate policy interventions will be effective and that the benefits of the interventions will be shared equally.

Nathan J. Cook, Tara Grillos, Krister P. Andersson (2019)

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Ivona Hideg, Anne E. Wilson (2020)

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

During group deliberations, the act of expressing anger increases a man’s influence but decreases a woman’s influence.

Jessica M. Salerno, Liana C. Peter-Hagene (2015)

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

When seeking investors via crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs benefit from the stereotype that they are more trustworthy than male entrepreneurs.

Michael A. Johnson, Regan M. Stevenson, Chaim R. Letwin (2018)

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Justine Tinkler, Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Manwai C. Ku, Andrea Rees Davies (2015)

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

One-day financial education training programs may be cost-effective interventions for improving the financial behaviors of women from poor households.

Aditi Bhutoria, Anna Vignoles (2018)

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Innovative research by women is underfunded because of gender differences in writing style.

Julian Kolev, Yuly Fuentes-Medel, Fiona E. Murray (2019)

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

When employers are informed that the norm is to hire more candidates of one gender, they tended to not exhibit norm-abiding behavior, with men demonstrating backlash.

Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen (2019)

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A radio program in Mexico decreased personal and perceived social acceptance of violence against women.

Eric Arias (2019)

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Single, career-driven women feel the pressure to “act wife”, downplaying professionally beneficial qualities like ambition, in order to reduce negative perceptions from potential male partners.

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, Amanda Pallais (2017)

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Topic Overview

Decision Making

Gender quotas increase the equality and effectiveness of climate policy interventions

History backfires: Reminders of past injustices against women undermine support for workplace policies promoting women

One Angry Woman: Anger Expression Increases Influence for Men, but Decreases Influence for Women, During Group Deliberation

A woman’s place is in the…startup! Crowdfunder judgments, implicit bias, and the stereotype content model

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Do Financial Education Interventions for Women from Poor Households Impact Their Financial Behaviors? Experimental Evidence from India

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Descriptive norms and gender diversity: Reactance from men

How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge.

‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations

Gender and venture capital decision-making: The effects  of technical background and social capital on entrepreneurial evaluations