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observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
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identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …
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, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …
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This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …
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We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In …. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …
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We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
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similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in … partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language …
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We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and … equitable income distribution. We find few differences across gender or gender pairings. Subjects are then given a choice … or delegation is sensitive to the price of agency, irrespective of gender. But female subjects are more likely to …
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This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...
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