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growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
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We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …
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Wage transparency regulation is widely considered and adopted as a tool to reduce the gender wage gap. We combine field … that this regulation does not affect the gender wage gap. In an online laboratory experiment, we study whether the failure … of these types of information reduce the gender wage gap. Wage information even deters women from entering negotiations. …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
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first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …-ranking aversion when the ranking is personal. When the ranking is imposed, there are still no gender differences in the preferences …
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Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … existing evidence comes from the top of the education and talent distribution. In this study, we use incentivized choices from … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …
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