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We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …
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psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a … randomized experiment, we look at the effects of having a female teacher on the math test scores of students in primary school …
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the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … proportional increase for men. Notably, this gender gap decreases with the frequency with which people have previously donated …
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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
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-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their wife's plot, failing to maximize household aggregate profits. They do …
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make more risky decisions in the new environment. We attribute our findings to gender differences in competitiveness and …
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differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their quot;present bias.quot; We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in …
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