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This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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women’s tour. These results prevail throughout a series of extensions and robustness checks, highlighting gender differences …
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women's tour. These results prevail throughout a series of extensions and robustness checks, highlighting gender differences …
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national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women's soccer performance. In … genders, which serve as measures for the country's gender equality, are able to explain differences in the international … male teams, suggesting that gender equality is an important driver of female sport success …
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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped age effect that is independent of gender, meaning that young and … previous studies on gender differences in risk preferences, and thereby emphasize the importance of considering the industrial …
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Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...
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remains significant at conventional levels. We carry out the same exercise for patience and document no significant gender …
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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …
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consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices …In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market …
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