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politicians accountable once they are in office. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first …
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Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which …
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has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …
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We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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