Beware: a woman is looking after your car

Magdalena Blanco, José María Cabrera and Alejandro Cid ()

No 1601, Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers from Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo.

Abstract: There has been little research on the association between behaviors, gender and usufruct rights in informal settings. Using a unique database from an underprivileged population, who informally look after cars parked in the streets, we analyze the behaviors women and men exhibit when they interact with other people in the street. We find that men tend to commit acts of physical aggression more than women when they have to defend their usufruct right. But, surprisingly, though theory and applied literature suggests the contrary, we found that women are more likely to react aggressively than men, when drivers underpay in this voluntary payment market. Building a Type Index of cuidacoches (indicator of attitude and external appearance), we explore association between aggressive behavior and this Type Index.

Keywords: gender; poverty; self-employment; violence; aggressiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 J16 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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