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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Parenthood and risk preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus - 2012

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …

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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams

Gerhards, Leonie - 2017

on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …

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Gender Differences in Strategic Reasoning

Dittrich, Marcus; Leipold, Kristina - 2021

This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …

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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020

Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link … between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a … hypothetical scenario, we document that the majority of girls expects to work 20 hours or less per week when having a young child …

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Gender differences in tournament choices : risk preferences, overconfidence or competitiveness?

Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017

. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …

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Are women in science less ambitious than men? : experimental evidence on the role of gender and STEM in promotion applications

Süer, Müge - 2023

The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

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Committee deliberation and gender differences in influences

Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2023

evidence that these findings have implications for the effectiveness of gender quotas. …

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A Study of Outcome Reporting Bias Using Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio; Heider, Janna - 2021

possible outcome reporting bias using gender differences in risk attitudes. There is a strong consensus view in the …, however, does not support the consensus: only a tiny fraction of the replications displays gender differences. This striking … outcome reporting bias in the risk and gender literature. We find no evidence that the likelihood of reporting about gender …

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