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How do men and women dier in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant...
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Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willing and able to perform under time pressure. We use a lab experiment to elicit preferences for working under time pressure in an incentivized way by eliciting the minimum additional payment participants require to complete...
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from … concerted move toward sensitization of gender issues and scrutiny entailing a gender audit at every level of activity. This may …
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Intuitive decision making has a large and often negative impact in economic decisions, but its measurement and quantification remains challenging. Following research from psychology, behavioral economists have often attempted to causally manipulate the balance of intuition and deliberation by...
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Contrary to claims by Gul and Pesendorfer (2008), I show that standard economics makes use of non-choice evidence in a meaningful way. This is because standard economics solely grounded in the theory of choice is incomplete. That is, it has content that can not be revealed with any general...
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nonparametric criterion to determine whether a group (defined, e.g., by gender, age cohort, socioeconomic status, political …
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, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the …
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An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … gender gap in tournament entry. …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …
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at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from …
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