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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation – what immigrants do with their time – based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …
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Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
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The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
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I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...
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