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Gender differences in the willingness to compete emerge early in life and persist
Sutter, Matthias; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 10, pp. 2339-2354
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386125
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Distributional Preferences and Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799376
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269847
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269854
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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to … determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
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Distributional Preferences and Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294780
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294806
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294818
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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to … determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294835
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568297