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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment.  Following a loss …, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment.  These findings …
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Utilitarianism and Luck
Persky, Joseph - In: History of Political Economy 45 (2013) 2, pp. 287-309
The study of luck in moral and political philosophy has generated two camps: the ``luck egalitarians,'' who see justice … as demanding aggressive efforts to reduce inequalities produced by luck broadly conceived, and the advocates of … hostile to utilitarianism. This essay aims at repositioning the luck debates in the context of John Stuart Mill's oft maligned …
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2013
impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at stake is big enough. Responses to luck are more persistent and …
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Chance versus choice: eliciting attitudes to fair compensations
Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John D; Pasca, Carmen - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
attractiveness in particular of Luck Egalitarianism, compensating inequalities due to chance but not those due to choice. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133549
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at stake is big enough. Responses to luck are more persistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112871
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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...
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Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy
Barney, Jay B. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 10, pp. 1231-1241
Much of the current thinking about competitive strategy focuses on ways that firms can create imperfectly competitive product markets in order to obtain greater than normal economic performance. However, the economic performance of firms does not depend simply on whether or not its strategies...
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Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do
Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928276
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False discoveries in mutual fund performance: Measuring luck in estimated alphas
Barras, Laurent; Scaillet, Olivier; Wermers, Russ - Institut für Finanzmarktforschung, Wirtschafts- und … - 2009
alphas by luck alone. Our approach precisely separates funds into (1) unskilled, (2) zero-alpha, and (3) skilled funds, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957175
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Change versus choice: eliciting attitudes to fair compensations
Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John D.; Pasca, Carmen - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
attractiveness in particular of Luck Egalitarianism, compensating inequalities due to chance but not those due to choice. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884455