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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 pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on the magnitude and sign of the relative risk premium,...
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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
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Ban-the-Box Laws : Fair and Effective?
Kaestner, Robert; Wang, Xufei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
hiring practices. BTB laws are intended to improve the employment opportunities of those with criminal backgrounds by giving … them a fair chance during the hiring process. Prior research on the effectiveness of these laws in meeting their objective …
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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A Delegation Approach to Regulating Hiring Discrimination
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
agent) is repeatedly faced with the opportunity of hiring one among several applicants to fill its vacancies. The firm is … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …
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Do Female–Owned Employment Agencies Mitigate Discrimination and Expand Opportunity for Women?
Hunt, Jennifer; Moehling, Carolyn M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We create a dataset of 14,000 hand-coded help-wanted advertisements placed by employment agencies in three U.S. newspapers in 1950 and 1960, a time when help-wanted advertisements were divided into male and female sections, and collect information on agency ownership. We find that female-owned...
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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 … significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no …
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Monitoring Harassment in Organizations
Boudreau, Laura; Chassang, Sylvain; Gonzalez-Torres, Ada; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...
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Gender Pay Gap across Cultures
Burns, Natasha; Minnick, Kristina; Netter, Jeffry M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We employ a cross-country sample to examine whether cultural differences help explain gender compensation variations across corporate executives. The results show that the cultural differences, which are embedded in societies from long prior to the compensation decisions, provide significant...
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When Is Discrimination Unfair?
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Osaki, Trevor T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the …
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