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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 …
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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 …
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …
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identity salient to black subjects, non-immigrant blacks (but not immigrant blacks) make more patient choices. Making gender …
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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 …
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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 …
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, at least in the short run, but increases problem behaviors and property crime arrests. The gender difference in treatment …
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substitutability. We conduct the first field experiment directly manipulating individuals' beliefs about others' protest participation …
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The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...
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In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...
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