Pricing competition: a new laboratory measure of gender differences in the willingness to compete
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Keywords
Willingness-to-compete; Competitiveness; Gender differences; Relative payoff; Piece-rate equivalents;All these keywords.
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- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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