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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
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This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 …
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The provision of social incentives in the workplace, where performance benefits a charitable cause, has been frequently used in modern organizations. In this paper, we quantify the impact of social incentives on performance under two incentive schemes: piece rate and a winner-take-all...
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impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with 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 …, significantly reduce girls' self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender difference in labor supply between …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
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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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We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success … entrepreneurial teams. In a lab-in-the-field experiment with Ugandan loan officers, we document gender discrimination of individual … female entrepreneurs, but no gender bias in the evaluation of entrepreneurial teams. Our results suggest that the observed …
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