Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 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 … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. …