E. Essen

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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes.…
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Outrunning the gender gap—boys and girls compete equally
Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been suggested as one possible explanation for why men occupy the majority of top positions…
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Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population✰
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Gender and economic preferences in a large random sample
We explore gender differences in preferences related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and competitiveness in an experiment with a large random sample of the Swedish…
Gender and Competition in Adolescence: Task Matter
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes.…
Gender and altruism in a random sample
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Age at Pubertal Onset and Educational Outcomes
Education has important short and long run implications for individual outcomes. In this paper we explore the association between age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes in a sample of Swedish…
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Punishment and Status
In economics there are two main domains of explanation for understanding unequal outcomes. The first considers differences in individual preferences, while the second concerns differences in how…
Social context and fairness perceptions: The role of status
This study investigates how induced relative status affects fairness perceptions measured by satisfaction from different relative payoffs. We find that participants with lower status are less…
Exploration in Teams and the Encouragement Effect: Theory and Experimental Evidence
This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration where both information and payoff externalities exist and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically…
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