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Gender Differences for Public Good Contributions by Competitive versus Group Work Environments

Wozniak, David - 2016

Using a between-subjects design, this experiment compared the effect of competitive and cooperative work in the lab on …

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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014

-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …

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A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst - 2003

There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games. Yet, when they are given the opportunity to punish...

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Demand for Giving to Multiple Charities : An Experimental Study

Filiz-Ozbay, Emel - 2018

theory predicts that an increase in the rebate rate offered by a given charity relative to a substitute charity will shift …

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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the … stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness …

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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self

Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online marketexperiment, involving a total of...

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The gender gap in competitiveness : women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...

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