全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Gender Gap in Tech & Competitive Work Environments? Field Experimental Evidence from an Internet-of-Things Product Development Platform

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w27154
来源ID	Working Paper 27154
	The Gender Gap in Tech & Competitive Work Environments? Field Experimental Evidence from an Internet-of-Things Product Development Platform
	Kevin Boudreau; Nilam Kaushik
发表日期	2020-05-18
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Many technology companies struggle to fill all their positions and to achieve gender parity in their ranks. One explanation for gender disparities is the possibility that men and women differ in their willingness to work under competitive organizational environments of tech firms. To investigate this question, this paper reports on a large platform-based field experiment in which 97,696 U.S. university-educated individuals were given the opportunity to join a tech-related product development activity. Individuals were randomly assigned to treatments emphasizing either competitive or collaborative interactions with other participants. We find that (1) in non-STEM fields, the competition treatment leads to a 27% drop in participation for females in comparison to males. However, in our main finding, (2) in STEM fields, we find no statistical differences in men and women’s responses to competition. The patterns are consistent with (3) men in non-STEM fields exhibiting overconfidence in their likelihood of succeeding under competition. We also find that, while participation in highest in STEM fields, (4) the ratio of female to male participation in a field is better predicted by whether the field is male- or female-dominated, than it is by whether it is a STEM field or not. We discuss theoretical interpretations and implications for organizations.
主题	Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Discrimination ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w27154
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584827
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kevin Boudreau,Nilam Kaushik. The Gender Gap in Tech & Competitive Work Environments? Field Experimental Evidence from an Internet-of-Things Product Development Platform. 2020.

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