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Choices About Competition: Differences by gender and hormonal fluctuations, and the role of relative performance feedback.
Wozniak, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Economic experiments have shown that when given the choice between piece-rate and winner-take-all tournament style compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a similar framework where subjects were not informed of...
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The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism
Rigdon, Mary L.; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior. Most experimental economics research has found that women are more generous than men. Evidence also suggests that gender differences depend upon the price of giving: males are...
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The Effects of Induced Mood on Preference Reversals and Bidding Behavior in Experimental Auction Valuation
Drichoutis, Andreas; Nayga, Rodolfo; Klonaris, Stathis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article contributes to the research agenda of accommodating psychological insights in conventional lab experiments. We specifically test whether inducing subjects into different mood states has a significant effect on subjects rationality (in the form of preference reversals) and on bidding...
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Difference in salary among science Doctorate
Ceesay, Ebrima K - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Abstract The paper examined the salary difference among science Doctorates for 2004 and 2006.The variation of certain factors such as experience, gender, marital status, Publication, Presentation, hiring and difference in sciences faculties (like natural sciences, social sciences etc.) leads to...
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On the Existence of Optimal Level of Women’s Intelligence in Men’s Perception: Evidence from a Speed Dating Experiment
Deja, Dominik; Karbowski, Adam; Zawisza, Mateusz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study gender differences in preferences for mate characteristics such as perceived physical attractiveness and intelligence using data from a speed dating experiment. We have observed that women give greater weight to perceived physical attractiveness than intelligence in their mating...
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Gender bias in risk aversion: evidence from multiple choice exams
Marín, Carmen; Rosa-García, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We provide evidence on a gender bias in risk aversion among students of economics in Spain. In a sample of 1947 multiple choice exams with penalization for errors, we find that women consistently answer less questions, while differences in marks are not significant. These empirical results are...
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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A Life-Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India
Velamuri, Malathi; Onur, Ilke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We examine gender differences in four measures of cognitive function among older individuals in India, using the 2010 pilot wave of the Longitudinal Aging Study of India (LASI) survey. We use a life-course approach and estimate the impact of circumstances in childhood, choices in adulthood and...
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Changing behaviour of self help group members: Pathway for sustainable rural livelihoods in Eastern India
Meena, M.S.; Singh, K.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study evaluates the behaviour construct of self help group (SHG) members. Data were solicited from randomly … and 2013. The behaviour construct developed, consisted of 30 items, for which Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of reliability … significant improvement in behaviour of SHG members was observed, which exemplifies the impact of SHG approach in instilling a …
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La modélisation macroéconomique comme processus de communication : pour une formalisation finaliste des équations de comportement
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
The assumption we submit, because macroeconomic forcasts would be unperfect, is that behavioral equations doesn't enough describe economic behaviours through the capacity of reaction opposite to environment. Further, the forcaster belongs to his search-system, so that, may be, we must now...
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