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The importance of being confident; gender, career choice, and willingness to compete
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 82-97
women's lower taste for competition or differences in confidence. We examine three types of confidence and find that … competition. …
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Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Gender-Task Stereotypes
Grosse, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore …
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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
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703512
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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is...
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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition: Experimental evidence
Danz, David - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 2014
overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader context, the results provide an explanation for the overconfidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955334
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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition: Experimental evidence
Danz, David - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader context, the results provide an explanation for the overconfidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163925
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Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations?
Kleinjans, Kristin - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2008
a possible explanation for this segregation: the gender difference in preferences for competition, which in recent … experimental studies has been found to affect economic outcomes. I find that women’s greater distaste for competition decreases … distaste for competition reduces gender segregation in the fields of Law, Business & Management, Health, and Education. …
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Professional Soccer
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2014
We show that professional soccer players and their coaches exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that players breach the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944714
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551016
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Expectations as reference points: field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817299