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economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …
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to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is …
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We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other …We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingness to self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and …
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This paper analyses gender differences in the trust game. Our experiment implements the triadic design proposed by Cox …
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We test in the laboratory the effect of changing the experimenter's gender in the trust game. We assume that … experimental subjects seek to discover the true purpose of the experiment and this behaviour may produce a bias to confirm … experimenter's expectations. The gender of the experimenter is a possible source of experimenter bias in a test on gender …
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differences in the discount rates of men and women, we find gender differences in the character of hyperbolic discounting in which … women display greater patience in their quot;present bias.quot; We also identify a gender-mood interaction: Negative mood in …
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This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … 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 …
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response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate …Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … perform a real-effort task under both tournament and piece-rate incentives and we elicit willingness to compete. We find that …
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