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Optimal reimbursement schemes in contests 竞赛中最优报销方案

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107163

Subhasish M. Chowdhury , Chen Cohen , Roy Darioshi , Shmuel Nitzan

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Beyond income: Understanding preferences for redistribution among the top 1% 超越收入：了解前1%的再分配偏好

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107132

Matías Strehl-Pessina , Marcelo Bergolo , Martin Leites

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Do religious people cope better in a crisis? Evidence from the UK pandemic lockdowns 有宗教信仰的人能更好地应对危机吗？来自英国疫情封锁的证据

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107136

Sriya Iyer , Shaun Larcom , Jaimin Shah , Po-Wen She

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On welfarism and scale invariance: What do bargainers bargain about? 论福利主义与规模不变性：议价者在谈什么？

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107128

Noemí Navarro , Róbert F. Veszteg

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The role of experience in shifting gender beliefs on performance: Experimental evidence 经验在改变性别信念对表现的影响中的作用：实验证据

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115

Miguel A. Fonseca, Ashley McCrea

{"title":"The role of experience in shifting gender beliefs on performance: Experimental evidence","authors":"Miguel A. Fonseca, Ashley McCrea","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In labour markets, women are often underrepresented relative to men. This underrepresentation may be due to inaccurate beliefs about ability across genders. Inaccurate beliefs might cause a sampling problem: to have accurate beliefs about a group, one must first collect information about it. However, employers may not wish to shortlist individuals from a group that is perceived to exhibit lower quality. Inaccurate beliefs may also persist due to biased belief updating. We run a stylised hiring experiment to disentangle these two effects. We ask participants to create shortlists from a male and a female pool of workers and give them feedback on the skill of those they shortlist. Based on that information, participants hire workers, and provide us with their beliefs about the distribution of skills in the male and female pots. We study how employers update their beliefs as a function of their past shortlisting behaviour, and how they shortlist given their beliefs. Participants were more likely to sample from the pool with the higher subjective mean quality (on average men) and lower subjective variance. Participants were not Bayesian updaters but there were no gender-specific biases in updating. Sampling more from a pool and spending more time sampling yield more accurate beliefs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Broadband and productivity: Structural estimates for Germany 宽带与生产力：德国的结构性估计

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107133

Tomaso Duso , Mattia Nardotto , Alexander Schiersch

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Voluntary quality disclosure in the Labour market 劳动力市场的自愿质量披露

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107152

Tom Lane , Minghai Zhou

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Does automation reduce stigma? The effect of self-checkout register adoption on purchasing decisions 自动化能减少耻辱感吗？采用自助结帐挂号对购买决策的影响

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107126

Rebecca Cardinali , Lester Lusher , Rebecca L.C. Taylor , Sofia B. Villas-Boas

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Reconsidering the normative foundations of public health: market vs. social justice 重新考虑公共卫生的规范基础：市场与社会正义

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107144

Byron Carson

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The Lavish, the wealthy, and the healthy — Effect of housing wealth on health outcomes and behaviors 奢侈、富有和健康——住房财富对健康结果和行为的影响

IF 2.3 3区经济学

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107123

Qingli Fan , Qiyao Zhou

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