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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Are lesbians discriminated against in the rental housing market? Evidence from a correspondence testing experiment
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Housing Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1051-1377 .- 1096-0791. ; 17:3, s. 234-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a field experiment, conducted over the Internet, studying possible discrimination against lesbians in the rental housing market in Sweden. We let two fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one lesbian, apply for vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the Internet. We then investigated whether there were differences between the couples in the number of received call-backs, invitations to further contact, and invitations to immediate showings. Our findings show no indication of differential treatment of lesbians by landlords. A discussion relating to earlier findings is provided.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-
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Are religious people more prosocial? : A quasi-experimental study with madrasah pupils in a rural community in India
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Ingår i: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. - : Wiley. - 0021-8294 .- 1468-5906. ; 48:2, s. 368-374
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using quasi-experimental data, this article examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies that identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of highly devout students who are preparing to enter the clergy to the behavior of other students in a public goods game and in the dictator game. The results show that religious students were significantly more cooperative in the public goods game and significantly more generous in the dictator game than other students.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Choices at various levels of uncertainty: An experimental test of the restated diversification theorem
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. - : Springer. - 0895-5646 .- 1573-0476. ; 33:3, s. 183-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our ``Restated diversification theorem'' (Skogh and Wu, 2005) says that risk-averse agents may pool risks efficiently without assignment of subjective probabilities to outcomes, also at genuine uncertainty. It suffices that the agents presume that they face equal risks. Here, the theorem is tested in an experiment where the probability of loss, and the information about this probability, varies. The result supports our theorem. Moreover, it tentatively supports an evolutionary theory of the insurance industry--starting with mutual pooling at uncertainty, turning into insurance priced ex ante when actuarial information is available.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Cooperación y confianza : análisis comparativo en economía experimental
- 2007
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Ingår i: Revista CIFE. - : Universidad de Santo Tomás. - 0124-3551. ; 12:9, s. 9-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this work using an experiment of game of public goods analyzes the relation between the attitudinal trust and behavioral trust in three countries. Students from Colombia, Mexico and Sweden participate in this experiment and respond a questionnaire with questions on confidence. The attitudinal trust and behavioral trust are different substantially between the analyzed countries. The confidence measured by the questions of the questionnaire does not show a pattern of common conduct between the participants of the three countries. Nevertheless, a somewhat similar behavior we found in the applied experiment, that is to say, the participants assume a certain level of risk very similarity, however, cultures and different societies come from.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Detecting discrimination against homosexuals : Evidence from a field experiment on the Internet
- 2009
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Ingår i: Economica. - : Wiley. - 0013-0427 .- 1468-0335. ; 76:303, s. 588-597
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the first field experiment studying discrimination against homosexuals on the housing market. The study is conducted on the rental housing market in Sweden using the internet as a research platform. Two fictitious couples, one heterosexual and one male homosexual, apply for vacant rental apartments advertised by landlords on the internet. Our findings show that homosexual males are discriminated against on the Swedish housing market, since the homosexual couple gets far fewer call-backs and fewer invitations to further contacts and to showings of apartments than the heterosexual couple.
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- Ahmed, Ali, et al.
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Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Urban Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0094-1190 .- 1095-9068. ; 64:2, s. 362-372
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a field experiment on discrimination in the housing market, using the Internet as a research platform. The procedure involved our creating three fictitious persons with distinctive sounding ethnic and gender names. These individuals applied for vacant rental apartments in Sweden that were advertised by landlords on the Internet. Our findings show that the Arabic/Muslim male received far fewer call backs, enquiries, and showings than the Swedish male. Our observations also indicate that the Swedish female met with less difficulty in terms of finding an apartment than the Swedish male. Thus, based on our findings, we conclude that ethnic, as well as gender discrimination exists in the Swedish rental housing market.
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- Ahmed, Ali, 1977-, et al.
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Diskrimineras homosexuella? Några erfarenheter från svensk ekonomisk forskning
- 2008
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska Föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 36:8, s. 31-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Diskriminering av homosexuella är förbjudet i Sverige. Trots detta är den ekonomiska forskning som finns på området begränsad. I artikeln presenteras resultat från forskningsprojekt rörande homosexuellas situation på arbets- och bostadsmarknaden i Sverige. Resultaten är i linje med resultat från internationell forskning. Homosexuella män har lägre arbetsinkomster än heterosexuella män. Diskriminering och skillnader i fördelningen av marknadsarbete och hushållarbete mellan homo- och heterosexuella hushåll framförs som förklaringar till detta. Vidare diskrimineras homosexuella män på bostadsmarknaden. Beträffande kvinnor finner vi inga statistiskt signifikanta skillnader mellan homo- och heterosexuella. Avslutningsvis presenteras några tänkbara förklaringar till varför homosexuella män diskrimineras medan detta inte är fallet för homosexuella kvinnor.
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