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The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

Apesteguia, Jose; Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … performance are explained by differences in decision-making. We observe that three women teams are less aggressive in their …

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Pseudomarkets with Priorities in Large Random Assignment Economies

Miralles, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

concept of fairness, called no unjustified lower chances: priorities with respect to one object type cannot justify different …

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The Donor Problem

Abbink, Klaus; Ellman, Matthew - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

Donors often rely on local intermediaries to deliver benefits to target beneficiaries. Each selected recipient observes if the intermediary under-delivers to them, so they serve as natural monitors. However, they may withhold complaints when feeling unentitled or grateful to the intermediary for...

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Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Two-Sided Matching

He, Yinghua; Miralles, Antonio; Yan, Jianye - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Using the assignment of students to schools as our leading example, we study many-to-one two-sided matching markets without transfers. Students are endowed with cardinal preferences and schools with ordinal ones, while preferences of both sides need not be strict. Using the idea of a competitive...

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Median Stable Matching for College Admission

Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

admissions problems. Furthermore, we discuss the fairness properties of median stable matchings and conclude with two …

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Fair and Efficient Student Placement with Couples

Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004

We study situations of allocating positions to students based on priorities. An example is the assignment of medical students to hospital residencies on the basis of entrance exams. For markets without couples, e.g., for undergraduate student placement, acyclicity is a necessary and sufficient...

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An Ordinal Shapley Value for Economic Environments

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

consistency and fairness and relying on properties satisfied by the Shapley value for Transferable Utility (T U ) games. We show a …

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Asymmetrically Fair Rules for an Indivisible Good Problem with a Budget Constraint

Jaramillo, Paula; Kayi, Çagatay; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

We study a particular restitution problem where there is an indivisible good (land or property) over which two agents have rights: the dispossessed agent and the owner. A third party, possibly the government, seeks to resolve the situation by assigning rights to one and compensate the other....

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Smith and Rawls Share a Room

Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

incompatible concepts of stability (represented by the political economist Adam Smith) and fairness (represented by the political …

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The Size and Distribution of Donations: Effects of Numbers of Potential Recipients

Hogarth, Robin; Soyer, Emre - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

concepts of fairness equity and equality. Both may be employed but, since they differ in cognitive and emotional costs, numbers …

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