Gender and overconfidence

By Claes Bengtsson, Mats R. Persson, Peter Willenhag. 2005

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6aa043f9574c05cf959282bbbc9ec6b45e794d7e

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Lise Vesterlund
2. Muriel Niederle
3. A. Dowker
4. Daniela Beckmann
5. Lukas Menkhoff
6. John A. List
7. Roman M. Sheremeta
8. James Andreoni

In Gender Studies

1. Muriel Niederle
2. Lise Vesterlund
3. Lukas Menkhoff

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Muriel Niederle
2. Lise Vesterlund
3. M. Suto
4. Daniela Beckmann
5. Lukas Menkhoff

Citations in the corpus

• Mathematics Anxiety: What Have We Learned in 60 Years? (2016, background): “, 2008). Sarkar et al. (2014) investigated the effects of tDCS to the dlPFC on mathematics anxiety.”
• Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap (2011, unknown): “Prior experimental evidence suggests that men are more prone to having excessive confidence in themselves (Bengtsson et al., 2005), an effect that may be muted when they compete in teams.”
• Impact of herding behavior and overconfidence bias on investors’ decision-making in Pakistan (2019, unknown): “The confidence level of both types of genders are also different (Bengtsson et al., 2005).”
• Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Propensity (2013, unknown): “Using a sample of Swedish students, Bengtsson et al. (2005) provided evidence that gender differences exist in self-confidence and optimism. Dohmen et al. (2010) found different risk attitudes among German men and women.”
• Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental Evidence (2012, unknown): “Consistent with the common finding that men are more overconfident than women (e.g. Bengtsson et al. 2005; Beyer 1990; Niederle and Vesterlund 2007), we find that male subjects are more likely to be overconfident .”
• Does Culture Influence Asset Managers? Views and Behavior? (2008, background): “This leads 22 Further empirical research is provided by Bengtsson et al. (2005) and Schubert et al. (1999).”
• Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “The most studied personality traits include (among others) over-confidence (Camerer and Lovallo, 1999; Bengtsson et al., 2005; Macko and Tyszka, 2009; Koellinger et al., 2007, 2013), need for achievement (McClelland, 1961; Rauch and Frese, 2007), need for autonomy (Brandstätter, 1997; Croson and…”
• Gender and Competition (2011, background): “…that women may underperform on admission tests to selective education programs is that they tend to report higher levels of exam anxiety (e.g., Bors et al. 2006) and that the overconfidence of men may lead them to pursue more challenging and rewarding extra-credit questions (Bengtsson et al. 2005).”