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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...
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Every man for himself. Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
the power to enforce normative behavior, that the gender gap in survival rates has declined, that women have a larger …
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Every Man for Himself! Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
the power to enforce normative behavior, that the gender gap in survival rates has declined, that women have a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818332
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Social Distance and Reciprocity: The Internet vs the Laboratory.
Charness, G.; Haruvy, E.; Sonsino, D. - 2001
We explore the effects of social distance on reciprocal behavior in an experiment conducted over the Internet on three continents and in classroom laboratory sessions conducted in Israel and Spain.
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The epistemic value of rationality
Popp, Alexandru W. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Models of rational choice use different definitions of rationality. However, there is no clear description of the latter. We recognize rationality as a conceptual conglomerate where reason, judgment, deliberation, relativity, behavior, experience, and pragmatism interact. Using our definition,...
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
to discriminate. Economic theory is, therefore, endogenously color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind, ethnicity-blind, and …
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Socially-embedded investments: Explaining gender differences in job-specific skills
Polavieja, Javier G. - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2010
Gender-differences in post-schooling skill investments play a central role in stratification processes. Yet little …
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CRIPPLED CAPITALISTS: THE INSCRIPTION OF ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE AND THE CHALLENGE OF FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
Yohn, Susan - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 1-2, pp. 85-109
-century United States were shaped and channeled by gender stereotypes. These stereotypes influenced the public attitudes held by both …
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Men among men do not take norm enforcement seriously
Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 523-529
present paper, we investigate whether there are gender differences with respect to norm enforcement. We let 1403 subjects play … games of punishment and reward, individually or in groups with varying gender composition. Broadly, the results indicate … that there are no clear gender differences: men are about as inclined as women to punish norm-breakers. However, behavior …
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