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In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared … contribution framing responded more strongly to reward thresholds and suggestions. An additional survey experiment on MTurk …
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Most studies of gender discrimination consider how male versus female candidates are assessed given otherwise identical … no gender difference or with a female advantage. Perhaps surprisingly, we observe no gender discrimination overall … candidate before making a final assessment. We use a large controlled experiment to explore how this type of endogenous …
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We examine whether an unsophisticated investor's own gender and the gender of a sell-side analyst report writer jointly …, irrespective of their gender, to respond differentially to analyst reports written by different genders. Yet archival research … shows individual investors' gender affects their personal investment decisions both directly and via the investment set …
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.g. gender, race, sugar) have a stronger effect when the attribute is mixed with others, and so the decision becomes less … discrimination, self-control, and framing effects. …
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-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to … of control and beliefs about the return to effort. We find that internal locus of control is linked to the preference for …
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decisions are often shaped not only by productivity considerations but also by managerial biases and gender stereotypes … making workers' task preferences visible to managers can reduce gender-stereotypical assignments and improve overall outcomes …-where managers lack access to workers' preferences-task assignments are more likely to reflect gender stereotypes. In contrast, when …
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This paper analyzes 12,596 wagering decisions of 6,064 contestants in the US game show Jeopardy!, focusing on the anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor heavily on the initial dollar value of a clue in their wagering decision, even though there exists...
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