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This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …
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This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955025
with salivary progesterone when controlling for gender, the use of hormonal contraceptives, and demographics. This also … ; Gender ; Competition ; Aggression ; Dominance ; Risk-taking ; Endocrinological economics …
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We correlate competitive bidding and profits in symmetric independent private value first-price auctions with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Bids are significantly positively correlated and profits are significantly negatively correlated...
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studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …
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uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We … present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but where the number of winners is either uncertain … experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …
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uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We … present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but where the number of winners is either uncertain … experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722124
studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007413
We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden …
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We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive …. However, this gender gap diminishes and becomes non-significant when we control for performance beliefs relative to others …
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