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It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …
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paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … 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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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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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … 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 …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … 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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three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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