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on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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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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This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …
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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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This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...
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The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural environment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...
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This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time...
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
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We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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Many studies document systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk … from gender differences in simple economic choice tasks, to voting over policy and to the resulting outcomes. We conduct a … gender difference is large relative to other voting differences based on observable characteristics and is partly explained …
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