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Entering a gender-neutral workplace? : college students' expectations and the impact of information provision
Barigozzi, Francesca; Domínguez, José J.; Montinari, … - 2023
? This paper investigates college students' expectations and the effect of information provision about gender gaps in … largely unaware of gender gaps. Second, while information provision doesn't substantially alter employers' hiring decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427446
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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010
probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941764
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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments
Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - 2010
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009156096
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132524
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When should I quit? Gender differences in exiting competitions
Hogarth, Robin M.; Karelaia, Natalia; Trujillo, Carlos … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 1, pp. 136-150
We study gender differences in exiting competitive environments by exploiting the “naturalistic experiment” of a TV game show where participants were self-selected and there were no gender-specific constraints or discrimination. In multiple rounds, contestants answer general knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048209
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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self
Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017
oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595495
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The gender gap in competitiveness : women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656928
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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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Who's who: How uncertainty about the favored group effects outcomes of affirmative action
Trieu, Chi - 2023
teamwork post competition. Affirmative action with uncertain favored groups does not distort belief in competence, and thus … does not induce such unintended consequences. In contrast, it increases competition entry of the affirmed groups and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321228
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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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