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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
competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082535
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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082546
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365004
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …
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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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Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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Preferences for Consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decisionmaking. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...
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Paying for Confidence: An Experimental Study of the Demand for Non-Instrumental Information
Eliaz, Kfir; Schotter, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents experimental evidence that when individuals are about to make a given decision under risk, they are willing to pay for information on the likelihood that this decision is ex-post optimal, even if this information will not affect their decision. Our findings suggest that this...
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
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Risk Aversion in a Dynamic Asset Allocation Experiment
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Giga, Aleksandar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We conduct a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects dynamically choose their portfolio allocation between a safe and a risky asset. We first derive analytically the optimal allocation of an expected utility maximizer with HARA utility function. We then fit the experimental choices to...
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