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When should I quit? Gender differences in exiting competitions
Hogarth, Robin M.; Karelaia, Natalia; Trujillo, Carlos … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 136-150
We study gender differences in exiting competitive environments by exploiting the “naturalistic experiment” of a TV game show where participants were self-selected and there were no gender-specific constraints or discrimination. In multiple rounds, contestants answer general knowledge...
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The Endowment Effect
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; Fuster, Andreas - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 555-579
The endowment effect is among the best known findings in behavioral economics and has been used as evidence for theories of reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. However, a recent literature has questioned the robustness of the effect in the laboratory, as well as its relevance in...
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Let the market decide : an experimental study of competition and fairness
Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014
Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can …
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Reference points in renegotiations : the role of contracts and competition
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
. -- renegotiation ; bargaining ; reference points ; contracts ; competition …
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Inequity aversion and advantage seeking with asymmetric competition
Cox, Caleb A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 121-136
, advantage seeking, and self-interest. Unlike previously studied cases of symmetric proposer competition, the predictions of …
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Distributional preferences and competitive behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 125-135
significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
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The importance of being confident; gender, career choice, and willingness to compete
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 82-97
women's lower taste for competition or differences in confidence. We examine three types of confidence and find that … competition. …
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Can personality explain what is underlying women’s unwillingness to compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 448-460
There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors, where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in … this is related to incentives. We can show that the sex difference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …
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Task assignment under agent loss aversion
Daido, Kohei; Morita, Kimiyuki; Murooka, Takeshi; … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 35-38
We analyze a task-assignment model in which a principal assigns a task to one of two agents depending on future states. If the agents have concave utility, the principal assigns the task to them contingent on the state. We show that if the agents are loss averse, a state-independent...
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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