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Can personality explain what is underlying women's unwillingness to compete?

Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - 2011

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter...

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Capitalizing on the (false) consensus effect : two tractable methods to elicit private information

Schmidt, Robert J. - 2019

revealing the subject's privately held information. In an experiment, we apply the mechanisms to reveal beliefs about … probabilities. On the aggregate level, both mechanisms accurately reveal mean first-order beliefs of the population. On the subject … level, the modal difference between probabilities elicited in either mechanism and actual first-order beliefs is zero. The …

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Age differences in the reaction to incentives : do older people avoid competition?

Sproten, Alec N.; Schwieren, Christiane - 2012

The "aging employee" has recently become a hot topic in many fields of behavioural research. With the aim to determine the effects of different incentive schemes (competition, social or increased monetary incentives) on performance of young and older subjects, we look at behaviour of a group of...

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Framing matters in gender-paired dictator games

Kettner, Sara Elisa; Ceccato, Smarandita - 2014

sample, gender-pairing, or beliefs about the counterpart's gender should be controlled for in experiments testing gender …

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Bayesian signaling

Hedlund, Jonas - 2014

This paper introduces private sender information into a sender-receiver game of Bayesian persuasion with monotonic sender preferences. I derive properties of increasing differences related to the precision of signals and use these to fully characterize the set of equilibria robust to the...

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