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affiliation and gender. We conducted experimental elections in which participants made their vote choices based solely on … appear ready to further narrow the gender gap in politics. …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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these two effects. We further conduct an incentivized choice experiment to assess parental risk attitude in a sample of … gender inequality. …
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-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
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is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …
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about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate …
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competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain … the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against … correctly, and (iii) respond correctly in high-stakes situations. Even risk preferences in wagering decisions, where gender …
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … ability ; experiment …
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