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Women do not play their aces : the consequences of shying away

Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...

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Psychological momentum and gender

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016

effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …

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Take a chance on ABBA

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017

The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …

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Choking under pressure and gender : evidence from professional tennis

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Rosenboim, Mosi; … - 2017

in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing their performance in low-stakes versus … results are mixed. Furthermore, even if women show a drop in performance in the more crucial stages of the match, it is in any …

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The value of publicly available, textual and non-textual information for startup performance prediction

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan M. - 2020

startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … performance outcomes we consider are involuntary exit, above-average employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent … predict startup performance with either high or very high accuracy with the exception of high returns on assets where …

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Does it matter how and how much politicians are paid?

Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, S. Elif; Tekin, Erdal - 2017

politician salaries on their performance using a unique law change implemented in 2012 in Turkey. Specifically, the members of … on the performance of the retired MPs. In particular, the overall performance of these MPs was lowered by 12.3 percent of … MPs reduce their performance is through absenteeism. …

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Are rushed privatizations substandard? : analyzing firm-level privatization under fiscal pressure

Hagemejer, Jan; Švejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

In this paper we provide the first analysis of whether rushed privatizations, usually carried out under fiscal duress, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed...

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Player dismissal and full time results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

De Meyere, Arne; Vanruymbeke, Ward; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...

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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

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