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Stress Reactions Cannot Explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to Compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
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Private Health Investments under Competing Risks: Evidence from Malaria Control in Senegal
Rossi, Pauline; Villar, Paola - 2017
malaria prevents parents to invest in child health. Building upon the seminal paper of Dowetal. (1999), we develop a simple … model of health investments under competing mortality risks, in which people allocate expenses to equalize lifetime across … all causes of death. We predict that private health investments to fight malaria as well as other diseases should increase …
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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Tournament Incentives in the Field : Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2009
We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046326
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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 intermediate vocational education. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a randomly selected group of teachers received feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as...
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Gender Differences in Private and Public Goal Setting
Brandts, Jordi; El Baroudi, Sabrine; Huber, Stefanie; … - 2022
We conduct a field and an online classroom experiment to study gender differences in self-set performance goals and their effects on performance in a real-effort task. We distinguish between public and private goals, performance being public and identifiable in both cases. Participants set...
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The Impact of Female Sex Hormones on Competitiveness
Buser, Thomas - 2009
We use fluctuations of female sex hormones occurring naturally over the menstrual cycle or induced by hormonal contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task...
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That's Just - Not Fair: Gender Differences in Notions of Justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
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