Showing 1 - 10 of 654
observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135766
We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106212
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757873
identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767030
This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039632
We conduct a real-effort experiment where participants choose between individual compensation and team-based pay. In …. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077973
, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311661
Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129135
Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130254
Ichino and Moretti (2009) find that menstruation may contribute to gender gaps in absenteeism and earnings, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136025