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differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …
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differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959784
they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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This paper analyses the relationship between workers’ gender and monetary incentives in an experimental setting based …
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We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is …
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the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap : (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less … ? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation … scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our …
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We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through … questionnaires that concerned either gender/family or professional issues. Subsequently, participants undertook a real-effort task … and chose between piece-rate and competitive-tournament compensation. Identity priming, moderated by gender, significantly …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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