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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Information Gatekeepers: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
is little evidence of learning over the 40 matches of the experiment. …
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Suspense
Chan, William M; Courty, Pascal; Li, Hao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In a dynamic model of sports competition, we show that when spectators care only about the level of effort exerted by contestants, rewarding schemes that depend linearly on the final score difference provide more efficient incentives for efforts than schemes based only on who wins and loses....
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
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Getting Better or Feeling Better? How Equity Investors Respond to Investment Experience
Campbell, John Y; Ramadorai, Tarun; Ranish, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
that both years of investment experience and feedback from investment returns have significant effects on investor behavior …, favored stock styles, and performance. We identify two channels of feedback: performance relative to the market, and the …
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Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
validity of results obtained in lab experiments or from sports data. To address these concerns we conducted a field experiment … where students selected themselves into tournaments with different prizes. Within each tournament the best performing … standard non-experimental analysis exploiting across tournament variation in reward size and competitiveness confirms earlier …
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Why organizations fail: models and cases
Garicano, Luis; Rayo, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Organizations fail due to incentive problems (agents do not want to act in the organization's interests) and bounded rationality problems (agents do not have the necessary information to do so). This survey uses recent advances in organizational economics to illuminate organizational failures...
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Bank Bonuses and Bail-outs
Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper shows that bonus contracts may arise endogenously as a response to agency problems within banks, and analyzes how compensation schemes change in reaction to anticipated bail-outs. If there is a risk-shifting problem, bail-out expectations lead to steeper bonus schemes and even more...
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No margin, no mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Jack, Kelsey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents …
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