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Volunteering to take on power : experimental evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies in India
Banerjee, Debosree; Ibanez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard; … - 2015
Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies, coercive power is in the hands of men. We investigate whether this form of segregation is due to inherent gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390561
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Gender differences in risk attitudes : belief in the existence of gender differences in risk attitudes is stronger than the evidence supporting it
Filippin, Antonio - 2016
in other behavioral traits, such as fondness for competition, have been used to explain important phenomena in labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471003
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Volunteering to take on power : experimental evidence from matrilineal and patriarchal societies in India
Banerjee, Debosree; Ibañez, Marcela; Riener, Gerhard; … - 2015
Gender equity in the creation and enforcement of social norms is important not only as a normative principle but it can also support long term economic growth. Yet in most societies, coercive power is in the hands of men. We investigate whether this form of segregation is due to gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386817
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic changes in its socio-economic institutions. These began with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581634
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
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 their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383874
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
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 their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373763
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Sex hormones and competitive bidding
Schipper, Burkhard - 2014
We correlate competitive bidding and profits in symmetric independent private value first-price auctions with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Bids are significantly positively correlated and profits are significantly negatively correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250541
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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631427
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441727
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563051