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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307669
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Men too sometimes shy away from competition: The case of team competition
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397136
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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?.
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and siignificant 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. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012504
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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. 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. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738631
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262295
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233644
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249676
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307663
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313938
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Social identity and competitiveness
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397132