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, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender …
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to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype … threat. explains the inability of women to improve performance under competition. We propose an alternative explanation for … gender inequality: namely, that women and men respond differently to time pressure. With reduced time pressure, competition …
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in an experiment. Our data show that indeed, strengthening weaker contestants through tie-breaks and bid …
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competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in … this proportion increases, high-ability contestants shy away from competition and sorting decreases, such that, reverse … the relationship among prizes, competition, and sorting. …
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are not efficient. Additionally, we find that farsightedness -as measured in our experiment- has no influence on whether …
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to an ambiguity averse preference for a randomized act. Building on this insight, we implement an experiment whose design …
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lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader …
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We study extrapolation between games in a laboratory experiment. Participants in our experiment first play either the …
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Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
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We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …
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