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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges

Buser, Thomas - 2014

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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Social desirability bias in attitudes towards sexism and DEI policies in the workplace

Boring, Anne; Delfgaauw, Josse - 2024

Do workers speak their mind about sexism and about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in the workplace? We measure social desirability bias regarding sexism and DEI policies using a list experiment survey among workers from five male-dominated industries in France and in the US. In...

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Adversarial economic preferences predict right-wing voting

Buser, Thomas - 2024

of right-wing and populist political preferences. Their explanatory power is similar to that of a rich set of …

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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 … predictive power of the new unincentivized measure for these outcomes is robust to controlling for other traits, including risk … attitudes, confidence and the Big Five personality traits. For most outcomes, the predictive power of competitiveness exceeds …

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The power to protect : household bargaining and female condom use

Cassidy, Rachel; Bruinderink, Marije Groot; Janssens, Wendy - 2020

bargaining power, meaning that men's preferences may constrain household adoption when decisions are joint. When low female … bargaining power constrains adoption of the first-best technology, introducing a version of the technology that is second-best in … strongest adoption of female condoms among women with lower bargaining power, who were previously having unprotected sex. …

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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...

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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran

Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

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Gender differences in private and public goal setting

Brandts, Jordi; El Baroudi, Sabrine; Huber, Stefanie J.; … - 2022

We conduct a field and an online classroom experiment to study gender differences in self-set performance goals and their effects on performance in a real-effort task. We distinguish between public and private goals, performance being public and identifiable in both cases. Participants set...

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to 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...

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Gender and willingness to compete for high stakes

Buser, Thomas; Dolder, Dennie van; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2020 - Version: February 2020

We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice between continuing to compete and opting out in...

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