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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges

Buser, Thomas - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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Candidate quality

Poutvaara, Panu; Takalo, Tuomas - 2003

We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with ability differences, informative campaigning and political parties....

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Gender gaps in political careers : evidence from competitive elections

Cipullo, Davide - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. In two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the...

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Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020

We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …

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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections

Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...

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Informed choices : gender gaps in career advice

Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2021

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various career paths, and we randomize whether a professional...

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Female neighbors, test scores, and careers

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2022

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from...

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Technological and organizational change and the careers of workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Occupational aspirations and investments in education : experimental evidence from Cambodia

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2023

Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day workshop designed to support adolescents...

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Competition and career advancement

Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

In standard promotion tournaments, contestants are ranked based on their output or productivity. We argue that workers' career progression may also depend on their relative rankings in dimensions a priori unrelated to their job performance, such as visibility or in-person presence. Such implicit...

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