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(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
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Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
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We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers …
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We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the …
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perform better. By conducting a natural field experiment, we aim to test whether this policy actually has the predicted …
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Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...
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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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they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
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We report the results of a field experiment evaluating the impact of financial literacy training on teenagers between … strong gender differences in financial matters already before adulthood: Girls show less interest in and self …
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Using an epidemiological approach, we study the cultural influence on fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants based on a 1% sample of the German population. We proxy for culture in the country of origin using total fertility rates from the year of migration, survey...
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