Women feel more pessimistic than men: Empirical evidence from Turkish consumer confidence index

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• Corresponding Author. An earlier version of this paper has been presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics held in Boston, MA, USA on 2628 June, 2009.
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• The authors would like to acknowledge research grant provided by Marmara University Scientific Research Projects Unit under SOS‐D‐300409–0129.
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