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We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668546
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635696
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...
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than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
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Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … competition. We also find that stress decreases willingness to compete overall, and for women, this is related to performance …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of …
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than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979517
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674139
We study how admission policies in higher education affect enrollment decisions of men and women and the decision to apply to STEM programs. More specifically, we investigate how an increase in the relative acceptance probability for STEM programs affects these decisions. We apply our analysis...
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