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-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …
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There is evidence that bidders fall prey to the winner's curse because they fail to extract information from hypothetical events - like winning an auction. This paper investigates experimentally whether bidders in a common value auction perform better when the requirements for this cognitive...
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Economic research on gender gaps has focused on variation based on the binary classification of "men" and "women". We … explore whether a self-reported continuous measure of gender identity (CGI) explains variation in economic decisions and … outcomes beyond the relationship with binary gender. We analyze data from four diverse populations (N=8,018), including …
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made by an individual themselves, but by someone else. Choosing on behalf of others is an integral part of life and gender … environments. We assign subjects either the role of an agent or a principal in an experiment. Agents perform a real effort task and …. Before making a decision for the agent, we vary whether the principal is informed about the agent's gender or not. Regardless …
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differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their quot;present bias.quot; We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in …
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decisions are often shaped not only by productivity considerations but also by managerial biases and gender stereotypes … making workers' task preferences visible to managers can reduce gender-stereotypical assignments and improve overall outcomes …-where managers lack access to workers' preferences-task assignments are more likely to reflect gender stereotypes. In contrast, when …
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Economic research on gender gaps in preferences and economic outcomes has focused on variation with respect to sex …-a binary classification as either a "man" or "woman." We validate a novel and simple measure of self-reported continuous gender … identity (CGI) and explore whether gender identity correlates with variation in economic decisions and outcomes beyond the …
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Economic research on gender gaps has focused on variation based on the binary classification of “men” and “women”. We … explore whether a self-reported continuous measure of gender identity (CGI) explains variation in economic decisions and … outcomes beyond the relationship with binary gender. We analyze data from four diverse populations (N=8,018), including …
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We examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, which are strategically equivalent under standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences or due to the different complexity of the two formats...
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depending on the dictator’s gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the …
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