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siblings, shapes one's feminine and masculine personality traits, such as a preference for competition. In light of recent … opt for competition, while the vast majority of women do not and, thus, are underrepresented on the career ladder. By …'s preference for competition, and examines whether a long-debated sibling hypothesis in psychology is supported from the viewpoint …
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-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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factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … identifiabilitiy (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to …-telling under competition. …
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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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We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies on team performance and the willingness to work in teams. We find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not discourage selection into teams.
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than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
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We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …
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We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … self-select into competition in the verbal task, but boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in math …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se …
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This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …
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Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … competition. We also find that stress decreases willingness to compete overall, and for women, this is related to performance …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of …
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