growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences arise …

production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition … ability, to acknowledge social values. Therefore, an increase in competition on consumer markets shifts the balance in … in competition on investor markets will shift the balance in an opposite direction. …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by … either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the conflicts …

This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single …-take-all tournament. The proportional-prize contest performs better by limiting the degree to which heterogeneity among contestants …

potentially divisible resource. We design an experiment to compare individuals’ decisions across three resource allocation … contests which are isomorphic under risk-neutrality. The results indicate that in aggregate the single-prize contest generates … lower expenditures than either the proportional-prize or the multi-prize contest. Interestingly, while the aggregate results …

closing the gender gap in education and provides predictions on the ability of these countries to close the gap by 2030 if …Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many …

The paper identifies a condition under which favouritism is beneficial to the principal even when the favoured agent is … selected randomly. This paper also characterizes how the optimal incentive scheme changes in presence of random favouritism …. Using a moral hazard framework with limited liability it is shown that in presence of favouritism principal can optimally …

The paper identifies conditions under which ‘inefficient’ favouritism emerges as an optimal outcome even when the …, it is shown that in presence of higher valuation for status incentive inefficient favouritism is more likely to dominate … over fairness. Moreover, inefficient favouritism emerges as the optimal outcome when revenue of the firm is sufficient low. …