Under-achievement and the glass ceiling: Evidence from a TV game show
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Keywords
Discrimination; TV game shows; gender differences; glass ceilings; leex;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2009-08-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2009-08-16 (Labour Economics)
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