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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

effects vary according to gender: they are large for men but not statistically different from zero for women. …

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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity

Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L.; Sosa, Cardona; Marcela, Lina; Nolen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices 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 other studies on single-sex...

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Choosing to Compete: How Different Are Girls and Boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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. …

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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under …

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