hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a … probability of a beneficial hiring decision for homosexual candidates decreases by 31.7% when employers are a standard deviation …

attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

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 …