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We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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punishment option and compare it to the behavior of individuals in a laboratory experiment. We also consider different team …, regardless of the team decision rule. Overall, teams yield higher payoffs than individuals … models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature …
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. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …
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intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … dimension for dishonest decision-making and for the cognition process of the chance to deceive. We conduct a laboratory … experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in …
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Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...
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When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
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Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...
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