Burow, Norma; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2017 - This version April 2017
a framed field experiment with 883 non-standard subjects, we show that none of the determinants of competitive behavior …'s substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …