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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …

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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

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Tournament incentives in the field: gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

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School Choice and Competition

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; van der Geest, Stephanie; Gradus, … - 2009

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

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The glass door: The gender composition of newly-hired workers across hierarchical job levels

Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Russo, Giovanni - 2010

This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We …

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Part-time jobs: what women want?

Booth, Alison L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Same Work, Lower Grade? Student Ethnicity and Teachers’ Subjective Assessments

van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010

existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower … likely to be indirect than direct.This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economics of Education Review' (30 …

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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2011

We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners of the...

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The effects of prize spread and noise in elimination tournaments: A natural field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Verbeke, Willem - 2012

We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in two-stage elimination tournaments. Tournaments differ in the distribution of prize money across winners...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282278