Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions

By Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, John A. List. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices (2012, unknown): “…on showing that the gender gap in performance increases with rising competitive pressure, the scant early studies on choices of competitive environments find evidence consistent with women shying away from competition (see e.g. Flory et al., 2010, and for an overview Niederle and Vesterlund, 2011).”
Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters (2013, background): “Flory et al. (2010) investigate gender differences in competitiveness in different age groups in matrilocal and patrilocal villages in Malawi and find that men are more competitive only in patrilocal villages, where the gender gap is the largest among the youngest cohort in their sample…”
Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments? (2014, methodology): “While Flory et al. (2010) study gender differences in job entry, Lavy (2013) focuses on differences in performance.”
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (2018, background): “…reason women refer low-ability individuals is aversion to competition (despite the firm’s motivation of wanting to hire more women), as suggested in Flory, Leibbrandt, and List (2015) and Niederle and Vesterlund (2007).26 Competition is likely more salient in the context of this experiment than…”
Sorting through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments in Colombia (2017, methodology): “The recruitment strategy in the three experiments followed a design similar to Flory et al. [2014] and involves ves stages that are presented in Table 2 and describe with more detail”
Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace (2013, background): “Datta Gupta et al. (2011), Dohmen and Falk (2011), Flory et al. (2010), and Niederle and Vester-lund (2007) ﬁ nd that men opt signi ﬁ cantly more often for competitive compensation schemes than women.”
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment (2012, background): “A recent field experiment by Flory et al. (2010), which tests for gender differences in job-entry decisions, shows that women disproportionately shy away from competitive work settings, yet the effect weakens when the job requires team work and, as in Gunther et al (2010), whether the task is…”