| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13541 |
| DP13541 Brave Boys and Play-it-Safe Girls: Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess in a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment | |
| Nagore Iriberri; Pedro Rey Biel | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-02-21 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study gender differences in willingness to guess using approximately 10,000 multiple-choice math tests, where for half of the questions, both wrong answers and omitted questions are scored 0, and for the other half, wrong answers are scored 0 but omitted questions are scored +1. Using a within-participant regression analysis, we find that female participants leave significantly more omitted questions than males when there is a reward for omitted questions. This gender difference, which is stronger among high ability and older participants, hurts female performance as measured by the final score and position in the ranking. In a subsequent survey, female participants showed lower levels of confidence and higher risk aversion, which may explain this differential behavior. When both are considered, risk aversion is the main factor explaining the gender differential in the willingness to guess. A scoring rule that is gender neutral must use non-differential scoring between wrong answers and omitted questions. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Gender differences Willingness to guess Risk preferences Confidence Perceived ability in math Natural field experiment |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13541 |
| 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/542359 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nagore Iriberri,Pedro Rey Biel. DP13541 Brave Boys and Play-it-Safe Girls: Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess in a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment. 2019. |
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