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remains unaffected. Remarkably, there is no gender gap in tournament performance when there are negative emotions …Individuals face competitive environments daily, and it is important to understand how emotions affect behavior in … these environments and resulting economic consequences. Using a two-stage laboratory experiment, I analyze the role of …
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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece …-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …
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Do women and men behave differently in financial asset markets? Our results from an asset market experiment using the … Smith, Suchaneck, and Williams (1988) framework show marked gender difference in producing speculative price bubbles. Using …
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& Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both … ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze the role of gender in repeated Prisoners' Dilemma played by Spanish high …
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We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …
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Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …
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We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …
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This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …
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This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
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