| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11596 |
| DP11596 Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership | |
| Gyöngyi Lóránth; Sule Alan; Elif Kubilay | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-11-03 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the evolution of gender differences in the willingness to assume the decision-maker role in a group, which is a major component of leadership. Using data from a large-scale field experiment, we show that while there is no gender difference in the willingness to make risky decisions on behalf of a group in a sample of children, a large gap emerges in a sample of adolescents. In particular, the proportion of girls who exhibit leadership willingness drops by 39% going from childhood to adolescence. We explore the possible causes of this drop and find that a significant part of it can be explained by a dramatic decline in “social confidence”, measured by the willingness to perform a real effort task in public. We show that it is possible to capture the observed link between public performance and leadership by estimating a structural model that incorporates costs related to social concerns. These findings are important in addressing the lower propensity of females to self-select into high-level positions, which are typically subject to greater public scrutiny. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics |
| 关键词 | Social confidence Leadership Gender Risk taking Experiments |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11596 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540410 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gyöngyi Lóránth,Sule Alan,Elif Kubilay. DP11596 Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership. 2016. |
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