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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581634
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Back-to-front down-under? Part-time/full-time wage differentials in Australia
Booth, Alison L.; Wood, Margi - 2006
In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271872
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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021
Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485925
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: The Role of Culture and Institutions
Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016
label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic … norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584679
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Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261638
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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009
the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269334
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Part-time jobs: what women want?
Booth, Alison L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276113
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Salience, risky choices and gender
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2012
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286867
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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences
Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012
affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289842
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Girls' and boys' performance in competitions : what we can learn from a Korean quiz show
Booth, Alison L.; Lee, Jungmin - 2019
television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To … of the game. We find that there are no gender gaps when stress is kept to a minimum - that is, in games without fastest …-finger buzzer, knock-outs or penalties. However, in games with these features, there are significant gender gaps. In addition, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985973