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1. Conformity and adaptation in groups
Bose, Gautam; Dechter, Evgenia; Ivancic, Lorraine;2023
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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2. Women's Labor Force Participation and Household Technology
abstractWe examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates to instrument for female labor demand, we find that the rise in women’s labor force participation between 1940 and 1950 increases appliance ownership by 25 percent in the average county. This result holds in both panel and cross-sectional estimates, and for two different technologies. We examine several mechanisms and find that changes to household income, as well as the substitution of hired domestic services with appliances, are salient channels. Together, the evidence is consistent with a historiography that suggests that as women went to work, they adopted appliances with new purchasing power and increasing demands on their time
Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah;2022
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3. Women's Labor Force Participation and Household Technology
abstractWe examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates to instrument for female labor demand, we find that the rise in women’s labor force participation between 1940 and 1950 increases appliance ownership by 25 percent in the average county. This result holds in both panel and cross-sectional estimates, and for two different technologies. We examine several mechanisms and find that changes to household income, as well as the substitution of hired domestic services with appliances, are salient channels. Together, the evidence is consistent with a historiography that suggests that as women went to work, they adopted appliances with new purchasing power and increasing demands on their time
Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah;2022
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4. Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, or Just Tax the Rich? Development, Efficiency, and the Pursuit of Equity
abstractTension between efficiency and equity is fundamental to every economy. Historical differences between groups translate into inequality in skills and hence earnings. Measures to correct inequalities affect incentives and misallocate talent, therefore compromising efficiency. This paper examines the efficiency properties of the three most common classes of equity policies: affirmative action, equal opportunity and tax-transfer. Our focus is to examine how the effectiveness of policies vary with the level of development and technology and the political maturity of the state. We argue that the optimal policy is likely to be different for different countries, and indeed for the same country at different stages of development.The intuition driving our approach is that the products produced in a less-developed economy are less complex and require lower embodied skills. Here, preferentially placing less prepared individuals in higher skill jobs does not compromise efficiency to too large an extent. In high-technology production processes, however, skills are more critical and productivities are interdependent, so it makes more economic sense to adequately train the inductees even at a relatively high cost. The most efficient outcomes are yielded by competitive markets accompanied by appropriate tax-transfer schemes. However, such schemes can effectively be used only by economies with the highest levels of socialisation and state capacity.We find that, in a low-complexity economy, reservation fares better than both training and tax transfer. As complexity of the production process increases training becomes more attractive and is in turn superseded by tax-transfers in the most complex and politically mature economies. These findings provide a step towards more informed and robust policy. We discuss several omissions and directions for further development
Bose, Gautam; Ghosh, Arghya;2022
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5. Women's labor force participation and household technology adoption
Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah;2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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6. Culture, Economic Shocks and Conflict : Does Trust Moderate the Effect of Price Shocks on Conflict?
abstractThis paper documents an important channel through which culture may affect conflict. We examine a panel of developing countries over fifty years and use price shocks to extractive commodities as an exogenous variation in the country’s economic outlook. We find that these price shocks are less likely to result in the onset of civil war and conflict in countries that have higher levels of trust. However, we also find that trust does not moderate price shocks’ effect on the cessation of conflict. Our study provides new empirical evidence on the interdependence of economic shocks and culture on conflict
Bose, Gautam; Choi, Mitchell; Yousaf, Hasin;2021
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7. Contributing to Peace
abstractContest theory analyses an anarchic economy where agents use resources in acquisitive conflict as well as for consumption, and explores condition for peace or conflict to prevail in equilibrium. History indicates that peacekeepers in the shape of kings, dictators or states often endogenously arise in such circumstances. I analyse an extended version of the canonical Tullock contest in which each of the potential contestants first has the option of contributing some resources to a neutral peacekeeper, and then allocates her remaining resources between arms and consumption. In the subsequent subgame, if one of the contestants attacks the other, then the peacekeeper joins its resources with the agent that is attacked. I show that, for less unequal resource distributions, contribution to peacekeeping is positive and subsequently leads to peace. The deterrence equilibria are pareto-superior to the corresponding equilibria of the pure Tullock contest except in a narrow range. However, no contributions are made when the endowment distribution is sufficiently unequal, and conflict occurs in equilibrium
Bose, Gautam;2021
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8. Women's Labor Force Participation and Household Technology Adoption
abstractWe examine how women's employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. We posit that this relationship is strongest for households with low earning capacity whose consumption-leisure tradeoff crosses a threshold as women go to work. Using WWII factories to instrument for female labor demand, we find that a standard deviation increase in female labor force participation increases washing machine ownership by 0.44 standard deviations, which is driven primarily by counties in the lowest pre-war education quintile. Changes to household income, as well as the substitution of paid domestic labor with appliances, are important channels
Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah;2020
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Citations: 1 (based on OpenCitations)
9. Behavioral coordination as an individual best-response to punishing role models
Bose, Gautam; Dechter, Evgenia; Foster, Gigi;2020
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 2 (based on OpenCitations)
10. Conforming to group norms : an experimental study
Bose, Gautam; Dechter, Evgenia; Ivancic, Lorraine;2014
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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