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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...
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in a tournament, but increase individual and total output. If the tournament is optimally designed, welfare is higher if …
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This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose the degree of risk taking depending on the...
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assuming the principal to be unable to commit to a certain policy at the beginning of the tournament. Our analysis shows that …
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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The auctioneer receives perfect information about the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination),...
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high-prize tournament, while low-ability agents compete for the low prize. However, there are also equilibria in which … agents follow a mixed strategy and there can be reverse sorting, i.e. low-ability agents are in the tournament with the high … prize, while high-ability agents are in the low-prize tournament. We show that total effort always decreases compared to a …
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This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
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matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a piece rate payment scheme, and finally perform a real task. As … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co … tournament incentives, or allowing the participants to choose the gender of their co-participant, increases women's willingness …
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We describe a simple computing technique for the tournament choice problem. It rests upon relational modeling and uses …, the minimal covering set, the Banks set, and the tournament equilibrium set are delivered. We present an example of a … tournament on a small set of alternatives, for which the above choice sets are computed and visualized via RelView. The technique …
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We describe a simple computing technique for the tournament choice problem. It rests upon a relational modeling and … set, the minimal covering set, the Banks set, and the tournament equilibrium set are delivered. We present an example of a … tournament on a small set of alternatives, for which the above choice sets are computed and visualized via RelView. The technique …
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