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| Tekijä: | Healy, A. Pate, J. |
| Otsikko: | Can teams help to close the gender competition gap? |
| Lehti: | Economic Journal
2011 : SEP, VOL. 121:555, p. 1192-1204 |
| Asiasana: | competition risk aversion experiment design gender |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | We study the effect that competing in teams has on gender differences in competition entry choices. In our experiment, subjects chose whether to engage in competition based on the combined performance of themselves and a teammate. Competing in two-person teams is found to reduce the gender competition gap by two-thirds. Regardless of the sex of one's partner, females preferred to compete in teams whereas males preferred to compete as individuals. We find that this results primarily from gender differences in competitive preferences, instead of other possible explanations such as risk aversion, feedback aversion or confidence. |
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