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Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...

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Revealing Stereotypes : Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alesina, Alberto - 2018

If individuals become aware of their stereotypes, do they change their behavior? We study this question in the context of teachers' bias in grading immigrants and native children in middle schools. Teachers give lower grades to immigrant students compared to natives who have the same performance...

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Gender Differences in Performance Under Competition : Is There a Stereotype Threat Shadow?

Geraldes, Diogo; Riedl, Arno; Strobel, Martin - 2021

use laboratory experiments to study the potential role of stereotype threat on the response of men and women to … competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against … women in one treatment. In additional treatments we, respectively, reinforce this stereotype threat and induce a stereotype …

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Gender Stereotyping in Sports

Marcén, Miriam - 2020

This paper contributes to the literature of gender differences in academic attainment by putting together several sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport choices of boys and girls during high school. Using data...

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Risk Attitude and Wage Growth : Replication and Reconstruction

Budría, Santiago - 2009

We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...

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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2015

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?

Charness, Gary - 2019

We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii)...

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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2019

Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale,...

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Asset Integration, Risk Taking and Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

Morrison, William G. - 2019

We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion, utilizing an asset integration protocol designed to ensure that a loss of cash provided by the experimenter is viewed as a real loss by experimental participants. Our experimental...

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Higher Order Risk Preferences : New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior

Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2020

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences - particularly prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field...

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