#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development
Dr. Alessandra Cassar is a Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco. She is the Vice-President for North America of the Economic Science Association. Her current research concentrates on the under-studied areas of female competitiveness; the consequences of conflict and disaster victimization for altruism, trust, religiosity, risk, and time preferences; and the role of social networks for economic outcomes.
In this episode, we start by talking about female competitiveness and what motivates it; sex differences in competitiveness, and their effects in the workplace and the job market. We discuss the evolution of prosociality anchored to human cooperative breeding. We talk about differences in competition and cooperation between monogamous and polygynous households. We discuss how civil conflict affects trust and market development, and the effects of natural disasters on altruism. We get into how microfinancing works, and how social capital applies to it; the role of goals, incentives, and support groups in the success of microentrepreneurs; and what financial exclusion is, and how it affects people. Finally, we talk about networked markets, and trade with cheating; and coordination and cooperation in games played on local, random and small-world networks.
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Intro
Female competitiveness: what motivates it?
Sex differences in competitiveness
Effects in the workplace and the job market
Allomaternal care and prosociality
Differences in competition and cooperation between monogamous and polygynous households
How civil conflict affects trust and market development
The effects of natural disasters
What is social capital?
How microfinancing works, and how social capital applies to it
The role of goals, incentives, and support groups in the success of microentrepreneurs
What is financial exclusion, and how does it affect people?
Networked markets, and trade with cheating
Coordination and cooperation in games played on local, random and small-world networks
Comparing autarky, frictionless free trade, and free trade with cheating
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3Wa9863
Website: https://bit.ly/3YysfrZ
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3FXR0GQ
Twitter handle: @Cassar_Ale