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From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science
Ding, Waverly W.; Murray, Fiona; Stuart, Toby E. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2010
This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty in commercial science. Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists’ productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131560
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
Rothstein, Jesse - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
Nearly two years after the official end of the "Great Recession," the labor marketremains historically weak. One candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven bydramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to as many as 99 weeks. This paper investigates the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131561
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A status-enhancement account of overconfidence
Anderson, Cameron; Brion, Sebastien; Moore, Don A.; … - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2012
In explaining the prevalence of the overconfident belief that one is better than others, prior work has focused on the motive to maintain high self-esteem, abetted by biases in attention, memory, and cognition.An additional possibility is that overconfidence enhances the person’s social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131563
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Compensation Structure and the Creation of Exploratory Knowledge in Technology Firms
Cui, Victor; Ding, Waverly W.; Yanadori, Yoshio - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
Given the importance of exploration in a firm’s overall innovation program, scholarshave sought to understand organizational factors that give rise to exploration-oriented innovations. We propose theory and empirical evidence that relates firms’ use of financial incentives to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131567
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If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You the Boss? Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
Haveman, Heather A.; Beresford, Lauren S. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131581
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The Local Ladder Effect: Social Status and Subjective Well-Being
Anderson, Cameron; Kraus, Michael W.; Keltner, Dacher - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
Dozens of studies in different nations reveal that socioeconomic status only weakly predicts an individual’s subjective well-being (SWB). These effects suggest that although the pursuit of social status is a fundamental human motivation, achieving high status has little impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131583
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Prices Matter: Comparing Two Tests of Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
Polimeni, Rachel; Levine, David I. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2012
A standard test for adverse selection in health insurance examines whether people with characteristics predicting high health care utilization are more likely to buy insurance (or buy more generous nsurance). George Akerlof’s theory of adverse selection suggests a test based on prices:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131589
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Male Pragmatism in Ethical Decision Making
Kray, Laura J.; Haselhuhn, Michael P. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
Why do men have more lenient ethical standards than women? To address this question, we test the male pragmatism hypothesis, which posits that men rely on their social and achievement motivations to set ethical standards more so than women. Across two studies, motivation was both manipulated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131590
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Who is Willing to Sacrifice Sacred Values for Money and Social Status? Gender Differences in Reactions to Taboo Trade-offs
Kennedy, Jessica A.; Kray, Laura J. - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2012
Women select into top business degree programs at a lower rate than men and are underrepresented in high …-ranking positions in business organizations. We examined taboo trade-off aversion as one possible explanation for these patterns. In … Study 1, we found that women implicitly associated business with immorality more than men did. In Study 2, when reading of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131595
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Gender Bias in Negotiators’ Ethical Decision Making
Kray, Laura - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2011
What is the relationship between gender and the likelihood of being deceived in negotiations? In strategic interactions, the decision to deceive is based in part on the expected consequences (Gneezy, 2005). Because gender stereotypes suggest that women are more easily misled than men, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131603