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This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a...
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790516
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790614
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on the degree of risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792126
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792259