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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
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We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373763
/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
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/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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Previous economic downturns such as the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g., manufacturing). However, after the imposition of the 'hard' COVID-19 lockdown between 2020 quarter 1 and 2...
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This study examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at labor market entry, defined as the time of … leaving school, on subsequent wages across gender and race using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79. Results suggest …
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measures like the gender wage gap. …
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