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competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … weaker response of women to competitive incentives. Despite the large amount of literature trying to explain this fact, the …
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In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. …
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gender differences, i.e., men cheat significantly more than women. We detect a novel correlation between subjects' magnitude … gender differences we observe. First, we find that the distribution of social value orientation differs between gender, i … the gender differential disappears. …
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competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … weaker response of women to competitive incentives. Despite the large amount of literature trying to explain this fact, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390466
experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …
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off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work …
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off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work …
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the effects of different incentive schemes (competition, social or increased monetary incentives) on performance of young … between conditions. The age difference in performance is however driven by women. While we replicate the gender difference in … competitiveness found in the literature, we do not find a significant age difference in competitiveness. Social incentives have an at …
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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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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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