We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they live in a region where societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data describing sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents who attended 8th grade 2013 with municipal voting results dealing and policy. find predominantly follow stereotypes li...

Anti-public stereotypes suggest that public agents are more likely to shun risk and tolerate delay vis-à-vis private agents. Based on context dependency of administrative behaviour, this study reports experimental evidence from 22,800 choice tasks exploring the effects publicness as a mental frame for individual judgement. Decision makers not automatically triggered deviate predicted economic d...