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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013
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 … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739726
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - HAL - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790516
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - HAL - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792259
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929091
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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of worker's ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898405
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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of worker's ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025921
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Ingratiation: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2014
We investigate experimentally ingratiatory behavior expressed by opinion conformity. Both individuals' performance at a task and their opinions on various topics can be observed before unequal payoffs are assigned by a second mover. In some treatments, first movers can change their opinion after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026105
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325706
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Hidden Information, Bargaining Power, And Efficiency: An Experiment
Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2011
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of bargaining power on the design and the selection … number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. We find that competition leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220690
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Competition, Hidden Information and Efficiency: An Experiment
Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006
We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden … principals. We first show theoretically how these different degrees of competition affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational … relative number of agents because competition reduces the agents' informational monopoly power. However, this environment also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788974