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We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a "behind the veil of ignorance" design. This method yields … and women do not differ in "trust", and that women are slightly more "trustworthy". However, men's strategies are bimodal …, peaking at the subgame perfect Nash equilibrium and the Pareto efficient frontier, while women's strategies are single peaked …
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contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …
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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2002, we estimate grouped tobit-type latent variable models with multi-level error...
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altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
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altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
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We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are …
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verdict. In this experiment we examine the relationship between evidence of which the strength is known, subjective …
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-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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