Overconfidence: the roles of gender, public observability and incentives
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Field experiment; Overconfidence; Gender difference; Public forecasts; Public outcomes; Incentives;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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