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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments
Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - 2010
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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Better sexy than flexy? : a lab experiment assessing the impact of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions
Baert, Stijn; Decuypere, Lynn - 2013
attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229535
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Hiring a homosexual, taking a risk? : a lab experiment on employment discrimination and risk aversion
Baert, Stijn - 2015
hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a … probability of a beneficial hiring decision for homosexual candidates decreases by 31.7% when employers are a standard deviation …
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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
Baert, Stijn - 2015
hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a … probability of a beneficial hiring decision for homosexual candidates decreases by 31.7% when employers are a standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011165
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Homosexuality's signalling function in job candidate screening: why gay is (mostly) OK
Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines - 2022
To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers … negative attitudes towards homosexual individuals are responsible for most instances of hiring discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198641
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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
Baert, Stijn - 2014
attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061450
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Hiring a homosexual, taking a risk? : a lab experiment on employment discrimination and risk aversion
Baert, Stijn - 2017
hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test … this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a … probability of a beneficial hiring decision for homosexual candidates decreases by 31.7% when employers are a standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098528
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Is Trustworthiness Written on the Face?
Dilger, Alexander - 2017
Trust is an important driver of economic transactions, but how do people decide whom to trust? We conduct an experiment to investigate whether people are able to predict trustworthiness by judging the face of a stranger. The behavior of the second player in the Trust Game is used as a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961409
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Is trustworthiness written on the face?
Dilger, Alexander; Müller, Julia; Müller, Michael - 2017
Trust is an important driver of economic transactions, but how do people decide whom to trust? We conduct an experiment to investigate whether people are able to predict trustworthiness by judging the face of a stranger. The behavior of the second player in the Trust Game is used as a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609452
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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self
Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017
oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
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