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This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest …
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towards gender equality and science-related issues. Our empirical estimates are based on a structural Roy model which accounts …
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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 on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …
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We document gender differences in the price paid for work-related air travel among similar workers within a firm. We … women booking flights earlier than men. We investigate potential mechanisms that could explain the observed gender … differences. We find that gender differences increase with age, but we find no deviation from this trend during the childbearing …
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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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relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …
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We study the role of face-to-face interaction for gender differences in deceptive behavior and perceived honesty. In … perceived honesty matters and men's truthfulness rises way beyond the level of women. To elaborate on these gender differences …
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Do gender disparities in academia reflect that female scholars are held to higher standards than males? We address this … makes the same career step. In most domains, this reflects a gender gap for "marginal" scholars, consistent with lower merit …
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The gender gap in inflation expectations, women reporting systematically higher expectations in consumer surveys, has … been attributed to traditional gender norms, and thus women’s greater exposure to volatile food prices. This overlooks a …
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look for evidence of a gender gap in dishonesty among elected representatives, as well as how this changes with time in … data on attitudes towards corruption with data from incentivized experiments. While we find little evidence of a gender gap …, we find it to be strongly associated with lower risk aversion. Our study indicates that gender gaps in politics should be …
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