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this need further investigation. We conduct a field and an online experiment to test a prominent theory about the sources …' interest, hence significantly increasing the gender and sexual gap in leadership ambition. While on the online experiment the …
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We explore the role of self- and peer evaluations in education, with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We construct a model of (self-)deception to predict outcomes for scenarios with and without self-evaluation. By using unique data from a first-year economics class at a Sino-UK...
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this entry-gap. Difference in income, performance, and parents' education cannot explain the entry-gap. The results suggest …
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- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse parents have a stronger preference for sons than for daughters …. Second, after the birth of their children, parents with sons are more risk seeking, compared to parents with daughters. We … samples, we find that parents with greater risk aversion before the birth of their children are more likely to have sons …
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This paper investigates whether altruistic punishment when cooperation norms are violated is sensitive to gender …
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of … increase of papers, we provide the first overview of economic experiments with children and adolescents. We focus on the … following aspects: rationality of choices, risk preferences, time preferences, social preferences, cooperation, and …
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Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits …
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This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees …
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, meaning an influence of democratic instability on free trade agreements and vice versa. Using an online experiment with two …
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