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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 differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

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Do not incentivize eco-friendly behavior: Go for a competition to go green!

Bühren, Christoph; Daskalakis, Maria - 2015

incentive, energy saving products, environmentally related information, social comparison or competition? We try to answer this … environment. Non-incentivized competition to save energy provided the best results. Our study concludes with implications for …

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Reference Points in Renegotiations: The Role of Contracts and Competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? An experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2016

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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Economics meets psychology: Experimental and self-reported measures of individual competitiveness

Bönte, Werner; Lombardo, Sandro; Urbig, Diemo - 2016

Economists and psychologists follow different approaches to measure individual competitiveness. While psychologists typically use self-reported psychometric scales, economists tend to use incentivized behavioral experiments, where subjects confronted with a specific task self-select into a...

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Affirmative action and team performance

Kölle, Felix - 2016

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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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? Experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability, we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …

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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110581