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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021
Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485925
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Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269334
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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? : an experiment in a coeducational university
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013
; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713086
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L. - 2013
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086221
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Choosing to Compete : How Different are Girls and Boys?
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764654
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Choosing to compete : how different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. -- Tournament ; piece-rate ; gender ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814309
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Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005
Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on areal-effort experiment suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861876
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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 version: 11 September 2015
sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343764
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Risk taking in diverse groups : gender matters
Nieboer, Jeroen - 2013
Using an experiment with incentivized decisions of groups in the economics laboratory, I investigate the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187863
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Gender differences in competitiveness : the role of social incentives
Drouvelis, Michalis; Rigdon, Mary L. - 2022
The provision of social incentives in the workplace, where performance benefits a charitable cause, has been frequently used in modern organizations. In this paper, we quantify the impact of social incentives on performance under two incentive schemes: piece rate and a winner-take-all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798210