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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes

Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010

able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …-sex groups given different incentive schemes. Furthermore, we report the results of a framed field experiment, where we explore a … our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment …

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Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness : Testing a Theory on Gender-Task Stereotypes

Grosse, Niels - 2017

-task stereotypes. Via data from a laboratory and a framed field experiment we test a recent model on stereotyping. Therefore, we …

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Do Overconfident Workers Cooperate Less? The Relationship between Overconfidence and Cooperation in Team Production

Mertins, Vanessa; Hoffeld, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2013

The tendency to underestimate others’ relative performance compared to one’s own is widespread among individuals in all work environments. We examine the relationship between, and the driving forces behind, individual overconfidence and voluntary cooperation in team production. Our...

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Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods

Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021

prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …

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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …

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Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2021

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …

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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments

Eriksson, Tor (contributor); Teyssier, Sabrina (contributor) - 2006

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether … ; incentives ; sorting ; selection ; experiment …

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Sloppy work, lies and theft: A novel experimental design to study counterproductive behaviour

Belot, Michèle; Schröder, Marina - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 233-238

We propose a novel experimental design to study counterproductive behaviour in a principal agent setting. The design allows us to study and derive clean measures of different forms of counterproductive behaviour in a controlled but non-obtrusive manner. We ask participants to complete a specific...

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Sloppy Work, Lies and Theft: A Novel Experimental Design to Study Counterproductive Behaviour

Belot, Michèle; Schröder, Marina - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, … - 2012

We propose a novel experimental design to study counterproductive behaviour in a principal agent setting. The design allows us to study and derive clean measures of different forms of counterproductive behaviour in a controlled but non obtrusive manner. We ask participants to complete a specific...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010569807

Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?

Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …

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