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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
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Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
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that of the other traits. Gender differences in competitiveness can explain 5-10 percent of the observed gender differences …
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