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We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
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We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594631
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668546
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674139
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
We analyze possible links between both trust and trustworthiness among Syrian refugees in Germany in relation to the refugees' involvement in two different forms of social networking (forming bonding ties with other refugees vs. forming bridging ties between refugees and Germans). We implement...
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representative sample. Consistent with theoretical predictions, our findings indicate that excessive confidence in one's judgment is …
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household could consume more in the current period (e.g., to the benefit of the children) if gender differences in saving …
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whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk … more equal gender roles than West Germans. Thus, if the gender gap reflects socially constructed norms, it should be … prediction. Specifically with respect to career and financial matters, the gender gap in risk tolerance is smaller among East …
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household could consume more in the current period (e.g., to the benefit of the children) if gender differences in saving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124261