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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...
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L'influence de la connaissance du genre du partenaire dans les relations de confiance et de réciprocité: une étude expérimentale
Bonein, Aurélie; Serra, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … great heterogeneity of individuals’ behaviors is observed: from selfish behavior to complete trust and trustworthiness …. Knowledge of responder’s gender does not imply different sending, even if men trust more their partners than women. However, a …
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Testing for Differences across Genders: A Replication of Ultimatum Game at International Islamic University, Islamabad
HASAN, HAMID; EJAZ, NAUMAN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper attempts to test the following hypotheses: (i) Are people generally self interested, (ii) If people tend to be generous, what is the motive, i.e., either they fear rejection or do they have a preference for fairness, and (iii) Is there any behavioral difference in bargaining between...
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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
Zhang, Y. Jane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese women into the labor force but exempted ethnic minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no...
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...
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Impossibility of interpersonal social identity diversification under binary preferences
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Diverse identities, some socially shared, arise from a person’s affiliation with multiple overlapping communities, which are non-disjoint subsets of persons in society. I prove that identification of each individual with binary preferences or their utility function representation, commonplace...
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Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
Cason, Timothy; Masters, William; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize is divided among contestants by their share of total achievement. We find that proportional prizes...
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