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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...
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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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Belief formation in a signalling game without common prior : an experiment
Possajennikov, Alexandre - 2012
Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in … which a common prior on Sender's type is not induced. Beliefs are elicited about the type of the Sender and about the … strategies of the players. The experimental subjects often start with diffuse uniform beliefs and update them in view of …
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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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Traders, forecasters and financial instability : a model of individual learning of anchor-and-adjustment heuristics
Makarewicz, Tomasz - 2019
(Learning-to-Forecast experiments) or individual trading (Learning-to-Optimize experiments). Bao et al. (2017) have shown that …
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...
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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself ; conference paper
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2013
We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a...
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women, losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men, a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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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...
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