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Effects of peer groups on the gender-wage gap and life after the MBA : evidence from the random assignment of MBA peers

Thomas, Mallika - 2024

study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor … relative earnings of female students at graduation, closing the gender gap in earnings at graduation by two-thirds. The effects … in the characteristics of the first job at graduation largely explains the effect of peer gender composition on long …

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Financial literacy, risk and time preferences : results from a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2020 - This version: 1 August 2020

We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...

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Improving healthy eating in children : experimental evidence

Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Eyster, Erik; Katz, … - 2021

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children in elementary schools. Previous interventions have typically paid participants for healthy eating, but this often may not be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are...

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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...

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Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior : a randomized educational intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023 - This version: 28 April 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Addressing validity and generalizability concerns in field experiments

Riener, Gerhard; Schneider, Sebastian O.; Wagner, Valentin - 2020

In this paper, we systematically analyze the empirical importance of standard conditions for the validity and generalizability of field experiments: the internal and external overlap and unconfoundedness conditions. We experimentally varied the degree of overlap in disjoint sub-samples from a...

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Monetary and social incentives in multi-tasking : the ranking substitution effect

Stefan, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2020

Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked...

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Reveal it or conceal it : on the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2020

Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment through sellers by asking for second opinions from other sellers. Yet, empirical evidence whether...

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Minimum wages and racial discrimination in hiring : evidence from a field experiment

Brandon, Alec; Holz, Justin E.; Simon, Andrew; Uchida, … - 2023

When minimum wages increase, employers may respond to the regulatory burdens by substituting away from disadvantaged workers. We test this hypothesis using a correspondence study with 35,000 applications around ex-ante uncertain minimum wage increases in three U.S. states. Before the increases,...

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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments : evidence from a natural field experiment

Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020 - This version: 23 August 2020

In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...

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