This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … additional individual characteristics such as subjects’ risk attitudes, measures of selfassessment and overconfidence, social … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

innate preferences are modified by pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes. Single-sex environments are likely to modify … students’ risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, our controlled experiment gave subjects an … either coed or single sex schools, and more likely than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk …

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental … competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in …

experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …

hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth … century. We propose an explanation for these facts which is based on a dynamic political economy model where redistribution is … determination of the dynamic political equilibrium of the model. Its effect is to compress bequest taxation but also to delay its …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

experiment. In the experiment, all subjects go through a series of quiz questions and subsequently report a performance measure … consequence of social approval seeking. We also find that men state higher self-assessments than women. This gender difference …