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Room Effects
Castillo, Marco; Leo, Gregory; Petrie, Ragan - Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), … - 2013
We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266049
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Sex hormones and choice under risk
Schipper, Burkhard - 2014
We study the correlation of choice under risk in Holt-Laury lotteries for gains and losses with gender, the use of … preferences and the digit ratio are observed in either gender and/or race. Females who use hormonal contraceptives are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255048
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Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
Albrecht, Konstanze; Von Essen, Emma; Parys, Juliane; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower evaluations, even if they are known to perform equally well as individuals from better performing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395436
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Cognitive (Ir)reflection: New Experimental Evidence
Herrero, Carlos Cueva; Kortajarene, Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2015
We study whether cognitive ability explains choices in a wide variety of behavioral tasks, including riskand social preferences, by collecting evidence from almost 1,200 subjects across eight experimentalprojects. Since Frederick (2005)'s Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has been administered to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193733
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Personality, Group Decision-Making and Leadership
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Y. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012
. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576010
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006
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 … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267618
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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit - 2010
Being the leader in a group often involves making risky decisions that affect the payoffs of all members, and the decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the willingness of men and women to make risky decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274088
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Updating, self-confidence and discrimination
Albrecht, Konstanze; von Essen, Emma; Parys, Juliane; … - 2011
In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower evaluations, even if they are known to perform equally well as individuals from better performing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282253
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Personality, Group Decision-Making and Leadership
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Y. - 2012
. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500224
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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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 … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703774