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differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …
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, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our … experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
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analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative …, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big … subsamples, our results suggest that siblings' gender does not systematically affect personality. …
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economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … of the big five personality characteristics (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness …
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We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …
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Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid … prepare enable to close the gender gap. …
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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped age effect that is independent of gender, meaning that young and … previous studies on gender differences in risk preferences, and thereby emphasize the importance of considering the industrial …
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competitiveness; how they predict individual and gender differences in career outcomes including income, holding a leadership position …, and entrepreneurship; how they predict wellbeing; and how they relate to other personality traits, skills, and preferences. …
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leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in …
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We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is … benefits of being elected are enjoyed solely by male leaders. However, this gender difference disappears with repeated …
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