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We investigate the effect of gender on the price deviation (bubble) from the fundamental value in a learning …-to-forecast experiment. Our results show that gender plays a more prominent role in markets with positive expectation feedback than in …
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using ads that randomize over the gender of the hiring manager and the gender associations of the product sector. I then …, based on the manager's gender and product sector. Truth-telling is incentivized with the Binarized Scoring Rule, using a … their beliefs about managers' beliefs. These results have important implications for the sorting by gender behavior driving …
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Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …
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This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …
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literature by studying gender differences in performance in a high-stakes and male dominated competitive environment, expert … chess tournaments. Our findings show that women under-perform compared to men of the same ability and that the gender … composition of games drives this effect. Using within player variation in the conditionally random gender of their opponent, we …
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& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both … ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze the role of gender in repeated Prisoners' Dilemma played by Spanish high … cooperation than male students. …
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The fraction of women in economics has grown significantly over the last forty years. In spite of this, the differences in research output between men and women are large and persistent. These output differences are related to differences in the co-authorship networks of men and women: women...
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voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …
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task and country dependent. -- cooperation ; children ; gender differences ; experiment … measurement device for cooperation that can be easily understood by children. There is some evidence of more cooperation in Sweden …. Girls are in general more cooperative with boys than with girls. Relating cooperation to competitiveness, this appears to be …
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This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the …, whereas our results indicate the opposite gender gap in Sweden. On average, children are more cooperative with boys than with …
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