; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

preference measures from Facebook data. Using a field experiment among university students, chapter 4 shows that the ordering in … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer …. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are: (1) decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced …