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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … 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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-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …
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We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the … a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …
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, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together …
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experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …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 men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third …
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that this regulation does not affect the gender wage gap. In an online laboratory experiment, we study whether the failure …Wage transparency regulation is widely considered and adopted as a tool to reduce the gender wage gap. We combine field … of these types of information reduce the gender wage gap. Wage information even deters women from entering negotiations. …
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explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on … curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …
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-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
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