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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010 - This version: 10 May 2010
interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment …Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three …
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657772
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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests : theory and experimental evidence
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2014
This paper investigates the implications of different prize structures on effort provision in dynamic (two-stage) elimination contests. Theoretical results show that, for risk-neutral participants, a structure with a single prize for the winner of the contest maximizes total effort, while a...
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment: comment
Feri, Francesco; Innocenti, Alessandro; Pin, Paolo - 2011
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Psychological pressure in competitive environments : evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment
Feri, Francesco; Innocenti, Alessandro; Pin, Paolo - 2011
-Huerta's randomized natural experiment. -- second-mover advantage ; competitive environments ; psychological pressure ; experiment …
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Sabotage in tournaments : evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012 - This version: 26th January 2012
Championships, where a rule change in 2009 basically constituted a natural experiment that introduced one costless opportunity for … ; natural experiment …
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Heterogeneity in effect size estimates : empirical evidence and practical implications
Holzmeister, Felix; Johannesson, Magnus; Böhm, Robert; … - 2023
A typical empirical study involves choosing a sample, a research design, and an analysis path. Variation in such choices across studies leads to heterogeneity in results that introduce an additional layer of uncertainty not accounted for in reported standard errors and confidence intervals. We...
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Do groups fight more? : experimental evidence on conflict initiation
Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023
present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …
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The anatomy of distributional preferences with group identity
Müller, Daniel - 2017
. Giving to the out-group also renders subjects more accepting of inequality. However, the experiment also uncovers a large …-behaved, yet systematically different underlying social preference functionals. Hence this experiment suggests that the rational …-off predicts political left-right self-assessment as more conservative voters are more selfish. I also document gender differences …
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