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We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender compositions. In mixed teams, males strongly …
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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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being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a …
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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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-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
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We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a …Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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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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