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We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … the first part, we compare women's to men's deceptive behavior using data from an incentivized income reporting experiment … in which lies can be detected in the course of an audit. Between the three treatments of that experiment, (i) the degree …
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being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a … female leaders do not increase dishonesty. A follow-up study reveals that female leaders become more dishonest after assuming …
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Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender …
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Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced … by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced … by eliciting a belief about others' dishonesty in a different game. We find that such belief elicitation (1) increases …
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Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced … by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced … by eliciting a belief about others’ dishonesty in a different game. We find that such belief elicitation (1) increases …
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Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in organizations or groups. Recent … deciding as a group member. We observe a strong dishonesty shift. This shift is mainly driven by communication within groups …
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randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that …
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This paper brings an important empirical contribution to the academic literature by examining whether gender … experiment carried out in Italy, U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Romania, and assessed tax compliance as reported income as a percentage … of total earned income in the experiment. We uncover that women declare a significantly higher percentage of their income …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …
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discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how clearly they reveal that the choice was based on gender. Our …
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