This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE …. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …

incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …

comparison and incentives to disclose potentially privacy-sensitive information. We find that information sharing is higher under … incentives, and further increases under peer comparison. This effect is driven by those initially disclosing less, who …

the effects of social connections vary with the strength of managerial incentives and worker's ability. To do so, we … engineered an exogenous change in managerial incentives, from fixed wages, to bonuses based on the average productivity of the …. -- Favoritism ; managerial incentives ; natural field experiment …

blunts incentives to pursue top executive positions in the business sector; and (ii) psychological mechanisms are likely to … amplify the effects of policies and institutions. -- Career choice ; Career incentives ; Gender equality ; Household … production ; Parental leave ; Welfare state incentives …