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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in …
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economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under …
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Multi-unit ascending auctions allow for equilibria in which bidders strategically reduce their demand and split the market at low prices. At the same time, they allow for pre-emptive bidding by incumbent bidders in a coordinated attempt to exclude entrants from the market. We consider an...
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We study a procedure for selling multiple heterogenous goods, which is commonly used in practice but rarely studied in the literature. The novel feature of this procedure is that instead of selling the goods themselves, the seller offers buyers the right to choose among the available goods....
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. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …
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Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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