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The Lifecycle of Affirmative Action Policies and Its Effect on Effort and Sabotage Behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, … - 2023

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

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Gender Differences in Sabotage: The Role of Uncertainty and Beliefs

Dato, Simon; Nieken, Petra - 2018

We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap is rooted in the uncertainty about the...

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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Schwarz, Marco A.; Trieu, Chi - 2022

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … low productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions …

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Effort Comparisons for a Class of Four-Player Tournaments

Caglayan, Deren; Karagözoglu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; … - 2020

We propose a novel tournament design that incorporates the main properties of a round-robin tournament, a Swiss tournament, and a race. Following an equilibrium analysis, we compare 36 tournament structures inherent in our model and several well-known tournament models from the literature, on...

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...

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