| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w11474 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 11474 |
| Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much? | |
| Muriel Niederle; Lise Vesterlund | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-07-11 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences. Explanations for these occupational differences focus on discrimination and preferences for work hours and field of study. We examine if absent these factors gender differences in occupations may still occur. Specifically we explore whether women and men, on a leveled playing field, differ in their selection into competitive environments. Men and women in a laboratory experiment perform a real task under a non-competitive piece rate and a competitive tournament scheme. Although there are no gender differences in performance under either compensation, there is a substantial gender difference when participants subsequently choose the scheme they want to apply to their next performance. Twice as many men as women choose the tournament over the piece rate. This gender gap in tournament entry is not explained by performance either before or after the entry decision. Furthermore, while men are more optimistic about their relative performance, differences in beliefs only explain a small share of the gap in tournament entry. In a final task we assess the impact of non-tournament-specific factors, such as risk and feedback aversion, on the gender difference in compensation choice. We conclude that even controlling for these general factors, there is a large residual gender gap in tournament entry. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Econometrics ; Experimental Design |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11474 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569117 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Muriel Niederle,Lise Vesterlund. Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?. 2005. |
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