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Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … when competing in a race. We here test if there is a gender gap in running among 7-10 year old Swedish children. We also … introduce two female sports, skipping rope and dancing, to see if competitiveness is task dependent. We find no gender …
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Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … when competing in a race. We here test if there is a gender gap in running among 7-10 year old Swedish children. We also … introduce two female sports, skipping rope and dancing, to see if competitiveness is task dependent. We find no gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201527
Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants' aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
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We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563051
Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … information on the applicants’ aptitude or personality, we find no gender differences in the perceived applicant performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
We partnered with Alaska's Pick.Click.Give. Charitable Contributions Program to implement a statewide natural field experiment with 540,000 Alaskans designed to explore whether targeted appeals emphasizing donor benefits through warm glow impact donations. Results highlight the relative import...
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We conduct a field experiment to assess whether alcohol-induced behavioural changes explain participants' recent history of violence. We find that being in a drinking environment, rather than intoxication, reduces participants' cognitive ability but increases their overconfidence. Those who...
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Field experiments which test the application of behavioural insights to policy design have become popular to inform policy decisions. This study is the first to empirically examine who and what drives these experiments with public partners. Through a mixed-methods approach, based on a novel...
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We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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by user types. The characteristics we analyze are previous compliance, gender, age, and nationality …
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