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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
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they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …
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We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even though in reality teams were largely involved in those auctions, experimental studies on bidding in auctions have so far relied on individual bidders. Our results show that...
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Auctions often involve goods exhibiting a common knowledge ex-post risk that is independent of buyers’ private values or their signals regarding common value components. Esö and White (2004) showed theoretically that ex-post risk leads to precautionary bidding for DARA bidders: Agents reduce...
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Being the leader in a group often involves making risky decisions that affect the payoffs of all members, and the decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the willingness of men and women to make risky decisions...
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our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …
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. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …
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