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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than … experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields and ages were invited to join a product development opportunity … significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no …
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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to …
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Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes
Khaw, Mel Win; Li, Ziang; Woodford, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In an experiment that elicits subjects' willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold …
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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation
Jack, B. Kelsey; McDermott, Kathryn; Sautmann, Anja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …
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Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States
Lahey, Joanna; Mosquera, Roberto M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...
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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application
Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment …
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The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluation
Aksoy, Billur; Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay to Decompose Beliefs and Preferences that Determine Selection into Competition in Lab Experiments
Chen, Yvonne Jie; Dutz, Deniz; Li, Li; Moon, Sarah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
has commonly been attributed to a gender difference in preference for performing in a competition is instead explained by … men being more confident than women in their probability of winning a future (though not necessarily a past) competition …
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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes : Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
Dhar, Diva - 2018
Societal norms about gender roles contribute to the economic disadvantages facing women in many developing countries. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at eroding support for restrictive gender norms, specifically a multi-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged...
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Do State Laws Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Reduce Age Discrimination in Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Neumark, David - 2018
We provide evidence from a field experiment in all 50 states on age discrimination in hiring for retail sales jobs. We …
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