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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …. Speculations are offered on the intervening variables that mitigate the effect of Muslim gender norms on economic performance. …
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …
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Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b) investment/savings and (c) insurance/assurance Using FinScope dataset from South Africa over the period 2003 to 2009,ordered probit, generalized ordered probit and pseudo panel...
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Locus of Control and Savings
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs about the controllability of life events and is a...
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Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device
Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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