This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …

contexts remain largely unknown. This study provides empirical insights quantifying such effects using a field experiment in …

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are …

using a field experiment that creates a microcosm of the college admissions market. Our experimental design is based on the …

the influential HighScope Perry Preschool Program. The Perry program was a social experiment that provided preschool …

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 …

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 …