Professor of Behavioral Applied Microeconomics at the University of Amsterdam
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Many studies find that men are more willing to compete than women, in the lab and in the field.
I wrote a survey of this literature: papers.tinbergen.nl/26063.pd… (forthcoming in the Handbook of Experimental Gender Economics).
I reach four main conclusions:
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Recently accepted by #QJE: “Fairness Across the World,” by Almås, Cappelen, Sørensen, and Tungodden: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag044
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Many studies find that men are more willing to compete than women, in the lab and in the field.
I wrote a survey of this literature: papers.tinbergen.nl/26063.pd… (forthcoming in the Handbook of Experimental Gender Economics).
I reach four main conclusions:
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4. There are strong indications that individual differences – and gender differences – in willingness to compete are economically relevant.
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I also argue the literature should move from focusing on gender differences in a single trait to estimating the explanatory power of gender differences in personality overall for gender gaps in occupational sorting. In a new working paper I do exactly that docs.iza.org/dp18721.pdf
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"A competitive world" - new working paper by Alexander W. Cappelen & Bertil Tungodden (both @NHHEcon, @NHHnor & @TheChoiceLab), @ThomasBuser and @UriGneezy:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Just published in the @JPubEcon “The Impact of International Conflict on Cross-Border Commercial Dispute Resolution” with @Dima_Shchetinin
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Incentivized and survey measures of competitiveness predicts education and labor market outcomes. In the May issue, by Thomas Buser; @ThomasBuser Muriel Niederle; @MurielNiederle Hessel Oosterbeek; @hooster1 zurl.co/CtPN7
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💡 Do financial advisors charge sustainable investors a premium?
Our new paper, accepted in Management Science, explores this question. 🧵
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"Fairness and willingness to compete" - new publication by Alexander W. Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden (both @NHHEcon, @NHHnor & @TheChoiceLab) and @ThomasBuser in Experimental Economics: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by @JohnHolbein1 alerted me, @OlleFolke, and Joop Adema (@Jopieboy) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Research by @thomasbuser & Sangi suggests a sizeable minority of people (30-40%)—more likely male, younger, or lower-educated individuals) is willing to engage in ‘dirty competition’ (sabotaging opponents, lying about their performance etc):
buff.ly/rUc9jnE
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Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing?
Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace. Paper link in comments and results summarized below.
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🚨Thrilled that our🆕paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in @ScienceAdvances
💡Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
🧵A thread
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📢Call for papers:📢
@CESifoNetwork Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with @EricHanushek)
5-6 Sept 2025, Munich
Keynote: @raffasadun
👉cesifo.org/en/event/2025-09-…
Submission deadline: 18 May 2025
Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessm…
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📄 New study in JEEA! Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform boosted education, income & Labour Party support.
✨ Kjell G. Salvanes, Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen & Matti Sarvimäki show how education shapes mobility & politics.
🔗 nhh.no/en/research-centres/f…
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University peers shape personality development with lasting effects on conscientiousness and competitiveness. Just Accepted new paper by Xiaoyue Shan (@_XiaoyueShan_) and Ulf Zölitz (@uZoelitz) zurl.co/wJHG2
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Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with @PedroSant_Anna and @bruno_ferman is now forthcoming in the
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American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals)
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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