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We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …
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gender differences. Individualistic men cheat more than all social types of both gender. …
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findings of gender differences in charitable giving may be explained by risk-tolerant women donating more. …
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gender differences, i.e., men cheat significantly more than women. We detect a novel correlation between subjects' magnitude … gender differences we observe. First, we find that the distribution of social value orientation differs between gender, i … the gender differential disappears. …
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Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
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This paper studies motivational crowding-out effects after financial incentives are lowered. In a real-effort setting, workers receive a piece rate before financial incentives are substituted by a one-time payment. Under the fixed payment, effort is significantly lower only when preceded by...
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large "ab-in-the-field" experiment comparing...
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large "lab-in-the-field" experiment comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415523
curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender …. We find that teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We … explore various mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance …
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