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The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining : Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2021

Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …

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When Parents Decide : Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Tungodden, Jonas; Willén, Alexander - 2022

more competition for their sons than daughters. Second, this gender difference can largely be explained by parents’ beliefs …

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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination

Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022

resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance … gender imbalance …

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To Buy or Not to Buy? Shrouding and Partitioning of Prices in an Online Shopping Field Experiment

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus - 2019

We examine whether shrouding surcharges or partitioning prices raises demand in online shopping where consumers have very low costs of cancelling an initiated purchase process. In a field experiment with more than 34,000 consumers, we find that consumers in the online shop of a large German...

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Collusive Tax Evasion by Employers and Employees : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Norway

Bjørneby, Marie - 2019

Third-party reporting and employers’ tax withholding are powerful compliance mechanisms, as long as the employer and employee do not collude to evade. Using data from randomly assigned on-site audits among 2,462 Norwegian firms, we provide evidence of collusive tax evasion. We find that firms...

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How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search - A Field Experiment

Belot, Michèle - 2019

We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Testing Willingness to Pay Elicitation Mechanisms in the Field : Evidence from Uganda

Burchardi, Konrad; De Quidt, Jonathan; Gulesci, Selim; … - 2021

Researchers frequently use variants of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism to elicit willingness to pay (WTP). These variants involve numerous incentive-irrelevant design choices, some of which carry advantages for implementation but may deteriorate participant comprehension or trust in...

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...

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Discrimination on the Child Care Market : A Nationwide Field Experiment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2023

We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...

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