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The "aging employee" has recently become a hot topic in many fields of behavioural research. With the aim to determine the effects of different incentive schemes (competition, social or increased monetary incentives) on performance of young and older subjects, we look at behaviour of a group of...
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explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
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In a within-subjects experiment we test the relation of risk preferences and charitable giving. Women not only give …
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We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a behind the veil of ignorance design. This method yields strategies that are consistent with actions observed in the classical trust game experiments. We observe that, on average, men and women do not differ in trust, and that women are...
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a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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differences in responsiveness to a homo economicus prime in a gift-exchange experiment with 113 participants. We observed gender …
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We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between men and...
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