Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/198950 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7590
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low” stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger drop in performance between the high and low stakes examinations than females, and Whites exhibit a larger drop in performance compared to minorities. Differences between high and low stakes tests are partly explained by the fact that males and whites exert lower effort in low stakes tests compared to females and minorities.
Subjects: 
high stakes
low stakes
GRE
incentives
experiment
performance
gender gap
race gap
JEL: 
C93
I23
I24
J15
J16
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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