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Luck or skill: How women and men react to noisy feedback

, 2020
We design an experiment that sheds light on the asymmetry in how men and women interpret noisy feedback about relative standing and how this gender difference can affect tournament entry.
G. Shastry, Olga Shurchkov, Lingjun Xia
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Time and Chance: Using Age Partitioning to Understand How Luck Drives Variation in Reproductive Success

American Naturalist, 2020
Over the course of individual lifetimes, luck usually explains a large fraction of the between-individual variation in life span or lifetime reproductive output (LRO) within a population, while variation in individual traits or “quality” explains much ...
Robin E. Snyder, S. Ellner, G. Hooker
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Symmetry in Pay for Luck

The Review of financial studies, 2019
In this study, we take a comprehensive look at asymmetry in pay for luck, which is the finding that CEOs are rewarded for good luck, but are not penalized to the same extent for bad luck.
N. Daniel, Yuanzhi Li, L. Naveen
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No luck for moral luck.

Cognition, 2018
Moral philosophers and psychologists often assume that people judge morally lucky and morally unlucky agents differently, an assumption that stands at the heart of the Puzzle of Moral Luck.
Markus Kneer, E. Machery
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The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State

Contemporary Sociology, 2019
American Sociological Association Section on Sexualities. 2018. ‘‘Origins of the PreConference Theme.’’ Retrieved October 10, 2018 (https://asasexualitiespreconf.com/history/). Gomez, Anu Manchikanti, Liza Fuentes, and Amy Allina. 2014.
Dorit Geva
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The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck

Contemporary Sociology, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, edited by Ian Church and Robert Hartman, is a compendium of recent research into what luck is and how to think about the moral and epistemic implications of luck. The book is composed of 39
Ian M. Church, R. J. Hartman
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Randomness, serendipity, and luck in petroleum exploration

, 2020
Petroleum explorers commonly acknowledge the contribution of luck in exploration outcomes. Our survey of 237 current industry practitioners revealed that 90% of them believe that luck affects the outcome of exploration projects.
A. Milkov, W. Navidi
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The strong Atiyah and Lück approximation conjectures for one-relator groups

Mathematische Annalen, 2018
It is shown that the strong Atiyah conjecture and the Lück approximation conjecture in the space of marked groups hold for locally indicable groups. In particular, this implies that one-relator groups satisfy both conjectures.
A. Jaikin‐Zapirain, D. L'opez-'Alvarez
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Do Chinese executives reward for luck?

, 2020
This paper examines the sensitivity of executive compensation to luck based on Chinese listed companies. To identify the causal effect, we rely on companies’ market performances driven by exogenous oil prices.
X. Shang, Chuanjiang Luo, Q. Wen
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Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Luck

The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology, 2018
The recent movement towards virtue-theoretic treatments of epis- temological concepts can be understood in terms of the desire to eliminate epis- temic luck.
D. Pritchard
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