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Does self-relevance affect information processing? Experimental evidence on the response to performance and non-performance feedback
Ertac, Seda - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 532-545
performance feedback, leading to overly pessimistic beliefs. This is in contrast to the corresponding self-irrelevant setup, where …
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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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The inelastic demand for affirmative action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a more intrinsic …
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Gender differences in trust and trustworthiness: Individuals, single sex and mixed sex groups
Chaudhuri, Ananish; Paichayontvijit, Tirnud; Shen, Lifeng - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 181-194
We explore gender differences in trust and trustworthiness between male and female individuals and groups consisting of two members of the same sex to understand if single sex groups behave differently from individuals of the same sex. We find some differences in the early rounds such as: (i)...
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Gender Retirement Gap
Garnick, Diane - 2017
Many people save for retirement through their employer, who in turn applies gender-neutral saving rates, investment choices, and spending strategies in retirement. Intuitively this creates a sense of fairness, but this intuition masks the reality that many women face. Lifetime earnings and...
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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2011
There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter...
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How Competitive are Female Professionals? A Tale of Identity Conflict
Cadsby, C. Bram; Servatka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
affected preference for competitive pay. This relationship was partially mediated by beliefs about oneÕs performance ranking …
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Gender- and frame-specific audience effects in dictator games
Alevy, Jonathan E.; Jeffries, Francis L.; Lu, Yonggang - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 1, pp. 50-54
We study dictator allocations using a 2×2 experimental design that varies the level of anonymity and the choice set, allowing observation of audience effects in both give and take frames. Changes in the distribution of responses across treatment cells allow us to distinguish among alternative...
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How competitive are female professionals? A tale of identity conflict
Cadsby, C. Bram; Servátka, Maroš; Song, Fei - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 92 (2013) C, pp. 284-303
We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through priming, influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may conflict and male professionals for whom they may be reinforcing. We...
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Can personality explain what is underlying women’s unwillingness to compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 448-460
There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition than men. In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051348