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Informed choices: gender gaps in career advice

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

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Signals from on high and the power of growth mindset: a natural field experiment in attracting minorities to high-profile positions

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021

by 40 percent and others being particularly effective for minority women. The heterogeneities we find by gender, race …

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Gender and bargaining : experimental evidence from rural Uganda

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2017

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through … variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of … mechanisms that induce gender inequality in resource access. …

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Is there a gender difference in the ability to deal with failures? : evidence from professional golf tournaments

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016

Recent experimental evidence suggests that women in general are more discouraged than men by failures which potentially can explain why women, on average, are less likely than men to reach top positions in firms. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this...

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Discrimination in the formation of academic networks : a field experiment on #EconTwitter

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bruno Ferman, Bruno; Sant'Anna, Pedro C. - 2023

. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …

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Sex, self-interest and health care priorities

Sach, Tracey H.; Whynes, David K. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 1-7

In this questionnaire study, individuals were asked to prioritise publicly provided preventive health care services, one of which would be unavailable to them by virtue of their sex. The aim was to establish whether men and women would exhibit different degrees of self-interest when making a...

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Altruism, Anticipation, and Gender

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013

altruistic behavior as well as anticipation about the same may differ across gender and across income levels. We study altruistic … behavior and the corresponding anticipation under a pure income effect with a focus on gender. In a dictator game we vary the …

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Giving, taking, and gender in dictator games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young; Saha, Bibhas - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014

We investigate whether a pure framing has any effect on the decisions made in a dictator game. We run a between subject dictator game with a giving and a taking frame whilst keeping the strategy space the same. Complying with the literature we find no overall difference in the amount allocated...

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Are women expected to be more generous?

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Aguiar, Fernando; Jiménez, Natalia; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2007

This paper analyzes if men and women are expected to behave dif- ferently regarding altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modi.ed version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are...

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Gender based prescriptions: evidence for altruism

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Aguiar, Fernando; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2006

This paper analyzes the way in which men and women are expected to behave differently in an experimental situation. To do so, we concentrate on a single topic: altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a...

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