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Tournament Incentives in the Field : Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009
growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046326
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; van … - 2014
absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most commonly used grading practices: the absolute (i.e., criterion …
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Ursache für Frauenmangel in MINT-Berufen? Mädchen unterschätzen schon in der fünften Klasse ihre Fähigkeiten in Mathematik
Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 45, pp. 1009-1014
Frauen sind an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen in den sogenannten MINT-Fächern (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaft, Technik) stark unterrepräsentiert. Der vorliegende Bericht geht der Frage nach, inwiefern eine der Ursachen schon im Grundschulalter zu suchen ist. Auf Basis eines für...
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Förderung von Mikrounternehmen in Uganda: Geschäfte von Männern profitieren von Krediten kombiniert mit Schulungen
Fiala, Nathan; Janes, Laurin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 141-147
Mikrounternehmen sind für einen Großteil der armen Weltbevölkerung Haupteinkommens- und Beschäftigungsquelle. Die Entwicklung geeigneter Förderprogramme für Mikrounternehmen stellt weiterhin eine große Herausforderung dar. Während Finanzspritzen oft bei der Unternehmensgründung helfen,...
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The Power to Protect: Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use
Cassidy, Rachel; Bruinderink, Marije Groot; Janssens, Wendy - 2020
Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female bargaining power constrains adoption of the...
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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325918
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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009
growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326030
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Förderung von Mikrounternehmen in Uganda: Geschäfte von Männern profitieren von Krediten kombiniert mit Schulungen
Fiala, Nathan; Janes, Laurin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 141-147
Microenterprises are the main source of income and employment for a majority of the world's poor. Developing appropriate programs to help microenterprises grow remains a challenging task. While injections of capital can often help start-ups, funding sustainable business expansion is clearly a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128553
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Biology and the gender gap in educational performance - The role of prenatal testosterone in test scores
Gielen, Anne C.; Zwiers, Esmée - 2018
This paper explores the contribution of biological factors in explaining gender differences in educational performance … traditional gender norms can explain this finding, implying that our results are not just driven by biology but materialize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932357
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large … are strong and consistent predictors of income, occupation, completed level of education and field of study. The … that of the other traits. Gender differences in competitiveness can explain 5-10 percent of the observed gender differences …
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