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The impact of stress on tournament entry
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: Experimental Economics 20 (2017) 2, pp. 506-530
Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual...
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015
through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking : comparing children in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas Campo, Juan Camilo; Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von - 2010 - Rev. June 3, 2011
We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …
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In bloom : gender differences in preferences among adolescents
Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von; Ranehill, Eva - 2011
We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … change when comparing performance under non-competition with performance under competition. Boys and girls are equally likely … the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences …
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532607
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Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking : Comparing Children in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo - 2011
We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132593
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In Bloom : Gender Differences in Preferences Among Adolescents
Dreber, Anna - 2012
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … self-select into competition in the verbal task, but boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in math …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se …
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Cooperativeness and Competitiveness in Children
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - 2015
Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperativeness in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137086
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Cooperativeness and Competitiveness in Children
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - 2014
Cooperation and competition are both essential elements of economic life. Here we explore how cooperation in a prisoner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146125
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015
through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442461