Anne Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6152-7282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A tent, a pigeon house, and a pomegranate tree
An eight-day HCI summer school was run by Kingston University for designing technologies to document intangible culture heritage (ICH) in North-Central Egypt. The school was part of the UK-Egypt institutional link, the Hilali Network, a Newton-Mosharafa project between the City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City) and Kingston University. The link aimed at advancing HCI education in Egypt by training 18 engineering stud…
Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States
This paper shows that different levels of empathy of men and women explain the well-documented gender differences in interventionist government economic policy views in the United States. Using the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) to measure empathy, the study finds that more empathic people support more interventionist policies. While greater empathy leads both men and women to support more government action, there is no gender differe…
Gender and Social Preferences in the US: An Experimental Study
This contribution provides evidence that social preferences differ by gender among United States college students. Tracking within-person choices over ten dictator exercises in which individuals choose one of three allocations of money between themselves and two other participants, this study precisely maps social preference types and identifies consistency of preferences within groups of roughly two-thirds of participants. Contrary to previous s…
Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences
Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it
This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men, and in paired settings, mixed-sex groups give the most while all male pairs give the least. Evidence supports social information and negotiation effects as participants change giving toward that of their pa…
Women in the White-Collar Nonprofit Sector: The Best Option or the Only Option
This paper investigates why female employees are overrepresented in the private nonprofit sector. Using the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, the author determines the importance of occupational locus and compensation structure as explanations for the large number of women in the sector. While occupational locus does contribute to the large number of women in the sector, the structure of nonprofit compensation is also an important factor in draw…
The Nonprofit Worker in a For-Profit World
This article investigates the experience of white-collar workers in nonprofit firms. The theoretical model of the nonprofit labor market suggests that workers supply labor to nonprofit organizations at lower than market wages in return for the opportunity to provide goods with positive social externalities. Average nonprofit wage differentials of approximately -0.20 and -0.05 are estimated for managers and professionals and for clerical and sales…
The Persistence of Organized Crime in New York City Construction: An Economic Perspective
This study explores the strengths and weaknesses of economic reasoning in explaining, and suggesting remedies for, the stubborn presence of racketeering in New York City construction. In this industry, the authors argue, transactions cannot be conducted efficiently either between a large number of firms or within a few large firms. Consequently, criminals can “sell,” and profit from, their ability to impose organization on the industry. Criminal …
Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it
This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men, and in paired settings, mixed-sex groups give the most while all male pairs give the least. Evidence supports social information and negotiation effects as participants change giving toward that of their pa…
Gender and Social Preferences in the US: An Experimental Study
This contribution provides evidence that social preferences differ by gender among United States college students. Tracking within-person choices over ten dictator exercises in which individuals choose one of three allocations of money between themselves and two other participants, this study precisely maps social preference types and identifies consistency of preferences within groups of roughly two-thirds of participants. Contrary to previous s…
Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences
The Persistence of Organized Crime in New York City Construction: An Economic Perspective
This study explores the strengths and weaknesses of economic reasoning in explaining, and suggesting remedies for, the stubborn presence of racketeering in New York City construction. In this industry, the authors argue, transactions cannot be conducted efficiently either between a large number of firms or within a few large firms. Consequently, criminals can “sell,” and profit from, their ability to impose organization on the industry. Criminal …
Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States
This paper shows that different levels of empathy of men and women explain the well-documented gender differences in interventionist government economic policy views in the United States. Using the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) to measure empathy, the study finds that more empathic people support more interventionist policies. While greater empathy leads both men and women to support more government action, there is no gender differe…
The Nonprofit Worker in a For-Profit World
This article investigates the experience of white-collar workers in nonprofit firms. The theoretical model of the nonprofit labor market suggests that workers supply labor to nonprofit organizations at lower than market wages in return for the opportunity to provide goods with positive social externalities. Average nonprofit wage differentials of approximately -0.20 and -0.05 are estimated for managers and professionals and for clerical and sales…
The Persistence of Organized Crime in New York City Construction: An Economic Perspective
This study explores the strengths and weaknesses of economic reasoning in explaining, and suggesting remedies for, the stubborn presence of racketeering in New York City construction. In this industry, the authors argue, transactions cannot be conducted efficiently either between a large number of firms or within a few large firms. Consequently, criminals can “sell,” and profit from, their ability to impose organization on the industry. Criminal …
Women in the White-Collar Nonprofit Sector: The Best Option or the Only Option
This paper investigates why female employees are overrepresented in the private nonprofit sector. Using the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey, the author determines the importance of occupational locus and compensation structure as explanations for the large number of women in the sector. While occupational locus does contribute to the large number of women in the sector, the structure of nonprofit compensation is also an important factor in draw…
Altruism in individual and joint-giving decisions: What's gender got to do with it
This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men, and in paired settings, mixed-sex groups give the most while all male pairs give the least. Evidence supports social information and negotiation effects as participants change giving toward that of their pa…
Gender and Social Preferences in the US: An Experimental Study
This contribution provides evidence that social preferences differ by gender among United States college students. Tracking within-person choices over ten dictator exercises in which individuals choose one of three allocations of money between themselves and two other participants, this study precisely maps social preference types and identifies consistency of preferences within groups of roughly two-thirds of participants. Contrary to previous s…
Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences
A tent, a pigeon house, and a pomegranate tree
An eight-day HCI summer school was run by Kingston University for designing technologies to document intangible culture heritage (ICH) in North-Central Egypt. The school was part of the UK-Egypt institutional link, the Hilali Network, a Newton-Mosharafa project between the City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City) and Kingston University. The link aimed at advancing HCI education in Egypt by training 18 engineering stud…
Can Empathy Explain Gender Differences in Economic Policy Views in the United States
This paper shows that different levels of empathy of men and women explain the well-documented gender differences in interventionist government economic policy views in the United States. Using the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) to measure empathy, the study finds that more empathic people support more interventionist policies. While greater empathy leads both men and women to support more government action, there is no gender differe…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 works) · Inequality (3 works)