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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Baert, Stijn - 2015

this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

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Hiring a homosexual, taking a risk? : a lab experiment on employment discrimination and risk aversion

Baert, Stijn - 2017

this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

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The spillover effects of gender quotas on dishonesty

Maggian, Valeria; Montinari, Natalia - 2017

We experimentally test for spillover effects of gender quotas on subsequent unrelated, unethical behavior. We find that introducing quotas has no systematic effect on unethical behavior for both genders. High performing, competitive females are more likely to display unethical behavior than...

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Affirmative action or just discrimination? : a study on the endogenous emergence of quotas

Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016 - This version: 16 February 2016

Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...

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Economics and Gender Equality : A Lens from Within

Risse, Leonora - 2019

This paper considers three aspects in which the issue of gender inequalities arises and is treated within the field of economics. First, I consider the premises on which gender inequality and discrimination have been conceptualized in traditional economic frameworks. Second, I consider how...

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Can AI bridge the gender gap in competitiveness?

Mourelatos, Evangelos; Zervas, Panagiotis; Lagios, Dimitris - 2024

This paper employs an online real-effort experiment to investigate gender disparities in the selection of individuals … of gender gap trends in competition entry rates, particularly as women increasingly embrace generative AI tools …

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

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Affirmative action or just discrimination? A study on the endogenous emergence of quotas

Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010 - This version: 10 May 2010

interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment …Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women …

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