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discretion which allows an immediate advancement of their cause and promotion discretion ("patronage") which allows a biasing of … that patronage may be strictly positive in both of them. We also apply the second setting to the case of corruption. …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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experiment with more than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm. We also …
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This paper tests the insiders’ dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders’ dilemma means that a … endogenous rather than exogenous merger theory. More surprisingly, our data suggests that fairness (or relative performance …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …
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We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one …
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