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by 40 percent and others being particularly effective for minority women. The heterogeneities we find by gender, race …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger...
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participants from a large US university and a large Chinese university. We find little evidence of gender differences across …
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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and university affiliation …
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national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a … test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …
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investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees … strategic misrepresentation of ethnicity increases Georgian trustors' expected back transfers and eliminates their …
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We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …
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gender or ethnicity differences. …We analyze gender difference in risk and ambiguity attitude of subjects across two different ethnicities that differ in …, higher risk aversion in group is an ethnic trait among Santals. Comparing the between ethnicity differences we find that …
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We study whether choice over co-workers matters for performance in gender-diverse teams. We carried out a lab … two dimensions: (1) gender and (2) student preference for that co-worker at baseline. We find that assigning a randomly … effects are heterogeneous across the gender stereotype of the questions and materialize even though the two types of male co …
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