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Men too sometimes shy away from competition: The case of team competition
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - 2011
as men. This article presents an experimental design giving participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of … a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in … line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament …
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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …
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Social identity and competitiveness
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - 2011
Recent experimental results indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do. Another literature is interested in the effect of social identity on economic behaviors. This paper investigates in the lab the impact of social identity on men and women's willingness to...
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Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review: Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015
This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative Economics 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women, losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men, a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...
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Competition and Career Advancement:The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect - relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm - as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
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Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Johnsen, Julian V.; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270274
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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...
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