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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low …
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an experiment with piece-rate incentives we find that the comparative static and the point predictions on effort …
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Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with …
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/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …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 …
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differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …
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of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …
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We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … behavior. In our experiment, we systematically varied the framing of the instructions, either using the male, the female, or a … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under …
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competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … weaker response of women to competitive incentives. Despite the large amount of literature trying to explain this fact, the …
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