Showing 1 - 10 of 818
experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845279
-in-the-filed experiment in which pairs of participants bargain over the division of a fixed amount of resources. We vary the gender …Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency … losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in bilateral bargaining, using a lab …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387489
We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318370
, meaning an influence of democratic instability on free trade agreements and vice versa. Using an online experiment with two … with participants' beliefs about the dishonesty of others in the game that they themselves play. We conclude that gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232853
discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … out both of these sources of discrimination with respect to gender. Yet, we still detect substantial discrimination … rely on statistically inaccurate beliefs but differ in how clearly they reveal that the choice was based on gender. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186866
the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200256
This paper brings an important empirical contribution to the academic literature by examining whether gender … experiment carried out in Italy, U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Romania, and assessed tax compliance as reported income as a percentage … of total earned income in the experiment. We uncover that women declare a significantly higher percentage of their income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936249
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926075
they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344873