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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2013

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth … accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a psychological concept that captures individuals' beliefs …-of-control gap in savings rates is largest among rich households, the gap in wealth accumulation is particularly large for poor …

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Locus of control and savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2013

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Locus of control and savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2013

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Locus of control and savings

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2014

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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...

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Gender and willingness to compete for high stakes

Buser, Thomas; Dolder, Dennie van; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2020 - Version: February 2020

We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice between continuing to compete and opting out in...

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The anatomy of competitiveness

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023

A large empirical literature in behavioral economics investigates heterogeneity across individuals and groups in preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four different motivations for entering competitions -...

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The anatomy of competitiveness

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023

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Time pressure preferences

Buser, Thomas; Veldhuizen, Roel van; Zhong, Yang - 2022

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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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad

Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016

We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...

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