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? This paper investigates college students' expectations and the effect of information provision about gender gaps in … largely unaware of gender gaps. Second, while information provision doesn't substantially alter employers' hiring decisions …
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examines how these shifts impact perceptions of women's abilities and managerial decisions (i.e. hiring and task assignments … positively influences hiring decisions, likely due to shifting beliefs as workplace exposure to women increases. Evidence from a …
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applications from two potential employees. We consider whether the gender of the other employer will influence an employerś hiring … decision. We find that the gender mix among employers plays a role in the individual hiring decisions of female members. Female … about relative gender performance are significantly associated with the observed hiring bias, while implicit attitudes do …
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This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …
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applications from two potential employees. We consider whether the gender of the other employer will influence an employer's hiring … decision. We find that the gender mix among employers plays a role in the individual hiring decisions of female members. Female … about relative gender performance are significantly associated with the observed hiring bias, while implicit attitudes do …
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oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
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Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...
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Women often find themselves in teams that hinder their productivity and earnings. We analyze the role of homophily and gender stereotypes in preferences for team formation and examine the effect of information on changing these preferences. We find that women are expected to perform better in...
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