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Essays on the role of gender and groups in economic decision making.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on the role of gender and groups in economic decision making./
作者:	Schwarz, Jay Alan.
面頁冊數:	100 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: 4254.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-11A.
標題:	Economics, Labor. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3471919
ISBN:	9781124832579

Essays on the role of gender and groups in economic decision making.
Schwarz, Jay Alan.

Essays on the role of gender and groups in economic decision making. - 100 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: 4254.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2011.

Groups collectively make many economic decisions. Corporate boards select CEOs or develop strategic plans. School boards hire superintendents and develop policies. Here I study ways gender may influence such group decisions. In Chapter 1, I study the formation of elected groups in an environment where females are well represented. Using California school board elections data, I estimate the electorate's response to either an additional male or female serving on the school board. I find that a female (male) winning the current election---and thus sitting on the board---increases the number of males (females) elected in the next cycle. I hypothesize the electorate has a preferred board gender composition it seeks to maintain. This result highlights that electoral environments with high-female representation may be substantially different from the previously studied low-female representation environments because in the former case voters have greater experience with female officeholders. In Chapter 2, I use the same school board data and study whether increased female representation on a school board affects a district's academic performance. I find that increasing the number of female board members has a positive impact on academic performance for districts failing to meet state requirements. I also show gender in fact influences how a school board executes its duty of monitoring the superintendent. For failing school districts, boards with more females are less likely to experience a superintendent separation. Lastly, in Chapter 3, I use an experimental design to study gender interactions within groups evaluating males and females competing against one another in a task. I elicit individual group members' evaluations and then groups' collective evaluations of the competitors. Consistent with studies of observational data, I find only groups with either low or high numbers of females tend to favor the male competitor. By mapping individuals to group decisions, I find this is partially explained by females being less likely to influence the group decision if they disagree a priori with the majority opinion.

ISBN: 9781124832579Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Essays on the role of gender and groups in economic decision making.
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