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We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of "assets" in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task’s...
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Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to … determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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platoons. We find that, without competition between groups, individuals are more prone to cooperate altruistically in a … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even …
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significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
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significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550513
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552184
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008503609
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008471562