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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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distaste for competition reduces gender segregation in the fields of Law, Business & Management, Health, and Education. …Occupational segregation by gender is prevalent and can explain some of the gender wage gap. I empirically investigate … a possible explanation for this segregation: the gender difference in preferences for competition, which in recent …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …
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