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Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2013
We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or nor their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...
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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
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Parental Socialization Effort and the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preferences
Alan, Sule; Baydar, Nazli; Boneva, Teodora; Crossley, … - 2013
We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This...
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The predictive power of risk elicitation tasks
Garagnani, Michele - 2020
This work reports an online experiment with a general-population sample examining the performance of budget-choice tasks for elicitation of risk attitudes. First, I compare the investment task of Gneezy and Potters (1997) with the standard choice- list method of Holt and Laury (2002), and...
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Do Migrants Facilitate Internationalization? A Review of the Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time … and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for … internationalization is not as obvious as the standard theory suggests, and tightening migration could have unexpected consequences for …
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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
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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Not all price endings are created equal: Price points and asymmetric price rigidity
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai; Gotler, Alex; Chen, Haipeng - 2019
We document an asymmetry in the rigidity of 9-ending prices relative to non-9-ending prices. Consumers have difficulty noticing higher prices if they are 9-ending, or noticing price-increases if the new prices are 9-ending, because 9-endings are used as a signal for low prices. Price setters...
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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
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Do gender preference gaps impact policy outcomes?
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017
Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential implication of this literature is that increased female representation in decision-making bodies may significantly alter...
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
There is substantial evidence that women tend to support different policies and political candidates than men. Many studies also document gender differences in a variety of important preference dimensions, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. However, the degree to which...
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