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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

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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Endophilia or exophobia : beyond discrimination

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013

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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The flipside of comparative payment schemes

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013

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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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

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 origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

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Age, cohort and co-authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

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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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?

Buser, Thomas - 2016

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...

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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender differences in confidence concerning future relative income...

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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - 2009

We use fluctuations of female sex hormones occurring naturally over the menstrual cycle or induced by hormonal contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task...

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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad

Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016

We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...

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