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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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such as offer distributions and outside options. This gender gap - which exists even controlling for overconfidence …
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A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
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A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668546
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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The European Union?s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …
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understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find that gender differences are less ubiquitous than … power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We … conclude that gender differences systematically correlate with the features of the elicitation method used and in particular …
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Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are … affects risk attitudes. The presence of a riskless alternative does not entirely explain the gender gap but it has a … determinants of gender differences in risk attitudes. …
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Economists believe in (monetary) incentives. However, in the specialized area of prosocial behaviours, (monetary …) incentives could backfire because extrinsic motivation might crowd out intrinsic motivation. Moreover, national differences in … the perception of incentives should also be considered, taking the cultural background of individuals into account. In …
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