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consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules that favor individuals whose performance is low … coincide with a higher willingness to compete and less retaliation against winners. No policy harms overall efficiency or post-competition …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568297
. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be … studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …
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We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
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academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their results. We … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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platoons. We find that, without competition between groups, individuals are more prone to cooperate altruistically in a … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even …
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