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 …

experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

work, agents usually make their effort choice in response to competition and monetary incentives. At the same time, they … also allow for variations in incentives in one work period, in order to analyze spillover effects to the work periods …We study theoretically and experimentally the role of fatigue and recovery within a competitive work environment. At …

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …

competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a … sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results suggest that a short-term increase in incentives induces a behavioral …

using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii …

Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …

Do people blame refugees for negative events? We propose a novel experimental paradigm to measure discrimination in … draw. We find evidence for reverse discrimination: Natives attribute responsibility more favorably to refugees than to … explain our finding of reverse discrimination, we rule out statistical discrimination as the driving force. We discuss …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …