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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 statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …
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relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …
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, and Trinidad and Tobago. This paper uses aggregate data to explore macroeconomic factors that contribute to gender … differentials in unemployment. National economic conditions and job segregation explain a portion of gender differences in … sufficient to ensure equitable job access, and more targeted efforts are therefore necessary to ensure gender equity. …
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experiment in a “same gender pairings” setting in International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. In order to test the …
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A particular problem of traditional Rational Choice Theory is that it cannot explain equilibrium selection in simple coordination games. In this paper we analyze and discuss the solution concept for common coordination problems as incorporated in the theory of Team Reasoning (TR). Special...
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We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing …
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Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …
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This paper implements an experimental test of a game-theoretic model of equilibrium profiling. Attackers choose a demographic “type” from which to recruit, and defenders choose which demographic types to search. Some types are more reliable than others in the sense of having a higher...
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compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a … such as piece-rate and group pay, and removes the gender difference in compensation choices. I then examine between and …
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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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