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De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …

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Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological …

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Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria - 2020

prepare enable to close the gender gap …

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Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media : A Natural Field Experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2019

Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...

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The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments : Evidence from a Field Experiment

De Paola, Maria - 2016

We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian University who took an intermediate exam in which one part was awarded on the basis of their relative...

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2011

Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...

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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas - 2012

Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, given its illegal and often immoral nature, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to...

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009

high-income households, women with more education than their husbands, and women with communist party membership have a …

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Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment: Comment

Kocher, Martin G. - 2010

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major...

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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. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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