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Can consumers see a difference? : an experiment with high-skilled soccer players
Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Dietl, Helmut; Berri, David J.; … - 2021 - Current Version: 15 November 2021
’s soccer videos higher when the gender of the players is visible. These findings reveal a bias in the evaluation of men’s and …
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Human capital and education policy : evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
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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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Women Are Slightly More Cooperative than Men (in One-Shot Prisoner’s Dilemma Games Played Online)
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Differences between men and women have intrigued generations of social scientists, who have found that the two sexes behave differently in settings requiring competition, risk taking, altruism, honesty, as well as many others. Yet, little is known about whether there are gender differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918586
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Gender Differences in the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
Gender differences in human behaviour have attracted generations of social scientists, who have explored whether males and females act differently in domains involving competition, risk taking, cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as many others. Yet, little is known about gender differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870841
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Gender Differences in Lying in Sender-Receiver Games : A Meta-Analysis
Capraro, Valerio - 2018
Whether there are gender di erences in lying has been largely debated in the past decade. Previous studies found mixed results. To shed light on this topic, here I report a meta-analysis of 8,728 distinct observations, collected in 65 Sender-Receiver game treatments, by 14 research groups....
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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018
Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936008
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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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The Gender Effect in the Laboratory : Experimenter Bias and Altruism
Innocenti, Alessandro - 2006
experimental subjects seek to discover the true purpose of the experiment and this behaviour may produce a bias to confirm … experimenter's expectations. The gender of the experimenter is a possible source of experimenter bias in a test on gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012732578
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Gender Bias in Opinion Aggregation
Mengel, Friederike - 2021
the experiment is gender-blind. There is substantial evidence of gender bias with open committee deliberation. In this … mechanisms and test two interventions for open deliberation. Randomizing the order of speaking does not reduce gender bias, but … decisions are made by committees. We experimentally investigate whether committee deliberation contributes to gender biases. In …
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