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Laboratory evidence shows that when people have to argue for a given position, they persuade themselves about the position’s factual and moral superiority. Such self-persuasion limits the potential of communication to resolve conflict and reduce polarization. We test for this phenomenon in a...
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several years after the shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal …
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shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the …
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premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …
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premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment. …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825008