Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability

A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be driven by a gender gap in willingness to compete. However, whereas experiments in this literature typically investigate willingness to compete in private environments, real world competitions often have a more public nature, which introduces potential social image concerns. If such image concerns are important, and men and women differ in the degree to which they want to be seen as competitive, making tournament entry decisions publicly observable may further exacerbate the gender gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find that public observability does not alter the magnitude of the gender gap in willingness to compete in an economically or statistically significant way.     

Cognitive abilities,self-efficacy,and financial behavior

This paper investigates the effect of cognitive abilities on financial behavior among older adults. Using the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, I find that cognitive abilities significantly affect financial behavior through two channels: ability and self-efficacy. People with higher cognition scores achieve better financial outcomes. This positive association is especially strong in tasks having high demand of cognitive abilities, which confirms the ability channel of the cognitive ability effect. In addition, there is evidence for the self-efficacy channel as a secondary source of cognitive influence. Lower cognitive abilities decrease people’s sense of self-efficacy, which, in turn, significantly decreases financial management efficiency. The findings have important policy implications, specifically that more effort is needed to assist the growing older population through the cognitive aging process and that noncognitive skills, as a secondary source of influence, also warrant attention.     

‘Public toilets for a diverse neighborhood’: Spatial purification practices in community development discourse

This paper explores the dialectic of place and community identity in Mount Pleasant, a multi–ethnic and multi–class U.S. neighborhood where definitions of place are hotly contested among its residents. In a grant proposal for public toilets, Mount Pleasant writers use linguistic strategies such as presupposition, deixis, and contrast, coupled with discursive themes of filth and geography, to construct a core of the Mount Pleasant community. The writers place themselves and people who share their values in that core, and immigrants at the margins. These strategies serve as a discursive type of spatial purification practice (cf. Sibley 1988) through which the grantwriters set up a moral and spatial order where they and other core community members are deemed to use space ‘appropriately’, and thus inhabit positive moral positions, while immigrant community members’ imputed ‘inappropriate’ use of space is used to construct negative moral positions for them.     

促性腺激素、V_(D_3)、V_E亚硒酸钠对母兔繁殖力的影响

选择成年、健康、未孕母兔 32只 ,随机分成 8组 ,分别给予促性腺激素 (Ⅰ组 )、VD3(Ⅱ组 )、VE 亚硒酸钠 (Ⅲ组 ) ,促性腺激素 +VD3(Ⅳ组 )、VD3+VE 亚硒酸钠 (Ⅴ组 )、促性腺激素 +VE 亚硒酸钠(Ⅵ组 )、促性腺激 +VD3+VE 亚硒酸钠 (Ⅶ组 ) ,空白对照 8种处理。试验结果表明 ,母兔经药物处理后 ,其繁殖性能 (发情状况、排卵数、正常受精卵数 )都比对照组显著地提高 ,但Ⅰ、Ⅳ、Ⅵ组有畸形卵子存在 ,以处理Ⅶ组效果最好 ,其排卵数达 4 7± 2 0 .3个 ,正常受精卵 35个 ,分别比对照组多 36 .5个、30个。     

《中华苏维埃共和国宪法》的再探讨

长期以来 ,史学界忽视了中华苏维埃共和国成立时 ,制定的《中华苏维埃共和国宪法》 ,极个别学者虽然引起了注意 ,但错误地把它混同于当时制定的《中华苏维埃共和国宪法草案》 ,我们认为《中华苏维埃共和国宪法》的存在是不容置疑的 ,1 931年 2月前 ,由中共中央和共产国际远东局共同起草 ,由于苏维埃政权当时还局限于中国的局部地区 ,故未提交“一苏大”讨论     

宪法:民主之法——论宪法学的研究对象

民主是宪法学的研究对象 ,宪法产生发展的历史、宪法的内容及宪法发展目标揭示了宪法学这一本质特征。从历史发展过程来看 ,宪法含义经历了从规定政权组织结构到规定公民权利 ,从规定公民权利到保障宪法中公民权利实现的变化 ;从现实世界范围内各国宪法内容考察 ,它们在形式上都承认主权属于人民 ,确认了一系列民主制度和民主原则 ;从人类发展趋势来看 ,民主是人类社会不懈的追求 ,由于需求的无限性 ,人类对民主的追求也没有止境。据此 ,宪法学研究范围具体应包括 :宪法基本理论、宪法制度、国家、公民及国家与公民的关系。     

论我国现行宪法的功能定位

按照宪政的要求,宪法应具有对人权的保障功能、对国家权力的控制功能、对民主政治的促进功能、对法治的推进功能、对经济发展的导向功能。我国1982年《宪法》虽是新中国成立以来最好的一部宪法,但它在功能定位上存在一些不合理之处。经过4次修正,其功能定位朝着合理性方向发展,有些功能的定位得到了改进,但有些功能的定位还需进一步完善。     

Lower bounds on expectations of positive L-statistics from without-replacement models

We consider samples drawn without replacement from finite populations. We establish optimal lower non-negative and upper non-positive bounds on the expectations of linear combinations of order statistics centered about the population mean in units generated by the population central absolute moments of various orders. We also specify the general results for important examples of sample extremes, Gini mean differences and sample range. The paper completes the results of Papadatos and Rychlik [2004. Bounds on expectations of L-statistics from without replacement samples. J. Statist. Plann. Inference 124, 317–336], where sharp negative lower and positive upper bounds on the expectations of the combinations were presented for the without-replacement samples.     

刑事违法观与犯罪构成关系论

按照主观违法论而加以建构的传统犯罪构成理论有别于按客观违法论建构的大陆法系犯罪论体系,两者有着不同的研究进路和研究方法。主观违法论强调有责之违法,行为人的主观罪过、客观的危害行为、刑事责任能力都是违法的构成要素,这种因人而异的违法观不能很好地为司法实践提供理论根据。从主观违法论立场出发,我们不可能从构成要件其中一个方面单独地判断违法性是否存在,传统犯罪构成理论将犯罪构成要件定位于反映行为社会危害性的事实特征,因此,犯罪构成只反映定罪结论,不反映定罪过程。     

强化宪法监督 促进以法治国

加强宪法监督是为了保障宪法的有效实施,这是我国建设社会主义法治的重要途径.就建设法治国家道路上宪法所处的地位以及以法治国与宪法监督制度的相互关系等问题进行了探讨.