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, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender …
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controlled experiment in which subjects were given an opportunity to choose a risky outcome - a real-stakes gamble with a higher … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than …
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both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …
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-sharing, screening opportunities, and competition are important driving forces behind these new forms of work organization. We document … competition substantially fosters the trust strategy, reduces market segmentation, and leads to large welfare gains for both …
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consistent with the theoretical results: in the experiment, investment levels with and without legal protection are comparable …
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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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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights … agency theory is indeed useful to qualitatively predict how variations in the degree of uncertainty affect subjects' behavior …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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