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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488294
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The inelastic demand for affirmative action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic …
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...
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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself ; conference paper
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2013
We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a...
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic changes in its socio-economic institutions. These began with...
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563051
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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635696
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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies in tournaments on subsequent team performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588562
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
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