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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does It Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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Gender Gaps in Competition: New Experimental Evidence from UK Professionals
Clot, Sophie; Della Giusta, Marina; Razzu, Giovanni - 2020
We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …
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Signals from On High and the Power of Growth Mindset: A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities to High-Profile Positions
Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021
by 40 percent and others being particularly effective for minority women. The heterogeneities we find by gender, race …
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959681
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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
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The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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Active decisions and pro-social behavior: a field experiment on blood donation
Stutzer, Alois; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Michael - 2006
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of...
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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct...
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Optimal Incentives to Give
Castillo, Marco; Petrie, Ragan - 2020
We examine optimal incentives for charitable giving with a large-scale field experiment involving 26 charities and over 112,000 unique individuals. The price of giving is varied by offering a fixed match if the donation meets a threshold amount (e.g. "give at least $25 and the charity receives a...
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