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our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …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 …
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a …
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We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one’s own influence on...
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redistribution and public spending are affected by gender, income and expected future living standard. Applying the concept of the … represent a further step towards understanding the gender gap in preferences for redistributive spending. …
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experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. This paper contributes to this literature by …
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I conduct an online survey of 3,000 respondents in the United States to examine individuals' beliefs about the gender … pension gap. By including an information provision experiment in which treated respondents are informed about the size of the … gender pension gap, I examine whether receiving this information causally affects respondents' perceptions of the fairness …
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We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat was imposed within a 2x2 between subjects design, with N=163 students reading a criticising comment about their ingroup assigned to originate from one of two possible outgroups....
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Costly signaling of commitment to a group has been proposed as an explanation for participation in religion and ritual. But if the signal’s cost is too small, freeriders will send the signal and behave selfishly later. Effective signaling may then be prohibitively costly. If the average level...
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provision of globally important public goods like the global climate. -- Experiment ; Groups ; Public good ; Spillover Game …
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In-group favoritism in social dilemma situations is one of the main findings of studies in Social Identity Theory. We investigate what causes the in-group bias: is it due to mere group affiliation or, alternatively, is guilt-aversion a possible explanation? We induce group membership in a...
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