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experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …
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returns to ability. I find that perceived gender shares do not affect men's applications, while increasing expected returns to … changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to … men's entry and the nature of men's sorting into female-dominated occupations. I modify the content of recruitment …
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Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to competition than men. Conditional on … performance, men are often more eager to compete, and the performance of men tends to respond more positively to an increase in … findings, showing that gender differences in competitiveness tend to result from differences in overconfidence and in attitudes …
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differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …
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own gender or in a mixed-gender team. We found that independent of the choice of team, in the initial period, men … experiment, the participants (N = 168, 84 women and 84 men) chose whether to perform a cooperative task only with members of the … contributed significantly more to the team projects than women. Men preferred the successful men-only teams in the subsequent …
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