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The trust game behind the veil of ignorance : a note on gender differences

Výrašteková, Jana; Onderstal, Sander - 2010

We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a behind the veil of ignorance design. This method yields strategies that are consistent with actions observed in the classical trust game experiments. We observe that, on average, men and women do not differ in trust, and that women are...

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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?

Buser, Thomas - 2016

lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece … effect is also present for high performers. In an additional experiment, I show that giving feedback to non-competers might …

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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender differences in confidence concerning future relative income...

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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …

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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - 2009

laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme …

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Peer effects and risk sharing in experimental asset markets

Gortner, Paul; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2019

We investigate the effect of introducing information about peer portfolios in an experimental Arrow-Debreu economy. Confirming the prediction of a general equilibrium model with inequality averse preferences, we find that peer information leads to reduced variation in payoffs within peer groups....

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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad

Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016

experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …

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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

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Grade expectations : rationality and overconfidence

Magnus, Jan R.; Peresetsky, Anatoly A. - 2017

Overconfidence seems to be an essential aspect of human nature, and one way to study overconfidence is to consider students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic achievements; what remains can be interpreted as...

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The effects of student feedback to teachers : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the … a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …

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