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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...
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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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This paper studies gender differences in strategic situations. In two experimental guessing games - the beauty contest … an internet experiment with more than 1,000 participants. We find that men, on average, perform more steps of reasoning …
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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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by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus on how stake size (endowment) and emotions influence responses in China …
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-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 …
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experiment to test several hypotheses on effective means to attract minority candidates for top professional careers. By randomly …
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, 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 …
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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 …
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measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction … administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … experiments to study what drives these gaps. Our first experiment shows that providing evaluators with automated performance …
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