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-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …
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there are some differences across gender and across participants´ experience in lab experiments. …
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We study theoretically and experimentally decision making under uncertainty in a social environment. We introduce an interdependent preferences model that assumes that the decision maker evaluates monetary outcomes in relation both with his individual and his social reference point. In the...
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This paper studies the effects of social comparison on risk taking be- havior. In our framework, decision makers evaluate the consequences of their choices as changes with respect to both their own and their peers' conditions. We test experimentally whether different positions in the social...
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there are some differences across gender and across participants' experience in lab experiments. …
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This paper studies the effect of social comparison on risk taking behavior. We assume that decision makers evaluate consequences of their choices not only as variations with respect to their economic status but also as variations with respect to the status of their peers. We test experimentally...
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-scale experiment. Choices react significantly to the stakes and to the size of the choice set. Our experiment rationalizes the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555774
Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … be gender neutral. After controlling for differences in performance, risk attitudes, and overconfidence, we find that …
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Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … be gender neutral. After controlling for differences in performance, risk attitudes, and overconfidence, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487471
We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender … applications from two potential employees. We consider whether the gender of the other employer will influence an employer's hiring … decision. We find that the gender mix among employers plays a role in the individual hiring decisions of female members. Female …
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