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We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …
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answer this question, we use videos of professional women’s and men’s soccer. In some videos the gender of the athletes was … clear to see. In other videos, though, the gender of the athletes was blurred. We find that participants only rate men …’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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online experiment, we investigate how the producer's gender influences consumers' willingness to pay for the wine. Gender can …
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effort lab experiments with 550 subjects in 11 treatments and one baseline. Our results indicate that monetary incentives to …
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the demand for three environmental policies, comprising nudges, monetary incentives, and punishments. I elicit the demand … for these interventions through decisions in a pro-environmental real effort task. The experiment introduces exogenous …
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between observer and observee. Observability involving economic incentives crowds-out anti-social behavior in favor of more …
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We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...
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The cost-of-living crisis has increased attention on consumption and how it differs for particular societal groups. There is much theoretical evidence that consumption patterns of men and women should differ, but the empirical evidence is scant, due in part to the availability of...
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We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or "willpower") affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
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