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A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

Prowse, Victoria; Gill, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous expectations-based reference point, responds …

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A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2011

disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse around her endogenous choice-acclimating expectations-based reference point, responds …

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More than outcomes: A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Recent research has cast some doubt on the general validity of outcome-based models of social preferences. We develop a model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant) tests the model. First, we find that subjects whose...

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Self-Confidence, Overconfidence and Prenatal Testosterone Exposure: Evidence from the Lab

Dalton, Patricio S.; Ghosal, Sayantan - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2014

to low prenatal testosterone levels, instead, set unrealistically high expectations which results in self …

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Ego-Utility and Endogenous Information Acquisition; An Experimental Study

Miklánek, Tomáš - 2017

This paper examines endogenous decisions to acquire useful information. My experimental design tries to test predictions of ego-utility theories and other relevant theories about the decision-making process of agents in the environment with costless signals. Only slightly more than half of the...

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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers

de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011

evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …

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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self

Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017

oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …

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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437

Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap in der Neigung zu konkurrieren ist einer von vielen Gründen für Unterschiede in den Bildungs- und Karriereentscheidungen von Frauen und Männern und für weitere Gender Gaps...

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The gender gap in competitiveness: Women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women's and men's education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than...

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The impact of stress on tournament entry

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: Experimental Economics 20 (2017) 2, pp. 506-530

Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual...

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