Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences

By Uri Gneezy, Muriel Niederle, Aldo Rustichini. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement (2012, background): “Gneezy et al. (2003) test reactions to competition in maths puzzles by boys and girls and conclude that it is not that women are unwilling or unable to perform well in competitions per se, but rather that they do not compete well in competitions against men.”
Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap (2011, neutral): “better than women in competitive environments even when no performance differences exist once the competitive aspect is removed (Gneezy et al., 2003; Gneezy and Rustichini, 2004).”
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment (2012, background): “2 In addition to gender differences in the response to incentives (Gneezy et al, 2009, Gneezy et al., 2003; Lavy, 2008, Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007, Bertrand, 2010), other reasons for the gender gap lie in differences in human capital (Blau and Kahn, 2010), stereotypes and discrimination (Spencer ”
Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments (2005, positive): “4 Gneezy et al. (2003) suggest on the basis of a maze experiment that women’s and men’s”
Gender composition in teams (2006, background): “3 For example, Eckel and Grossman (1998) find that women are more generous, Andreoni and Vesterlund (2001) find that women are more equalitarian, and Gneezy et al. (2003) and Gneezy and Rustichini (2004) find that competition increases the performance of men relative to women (and this result may ”
Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students (2004, neutral): “An Experiment with Managers and Students Claude Montmarquette, Jean-Louis Rullière, Marie Claire Villeval, Romain Zeiliger”
Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland (2015, background): “While Gupta et al. (2012) indeed provide evidence for a significant effect of the competitor’s gender in a series of experiments, Gneezy, Niederle and Rustichini (2003) and Gneezy and Rustichini (2004) find no effect.”
Beauty, gender and stereotypes : Evidence from laboratory experiments (2008, background): “Indeed, in a comprehensive review of the literature on beauty, Langlois et al. (2000) find that attractive people are not only judged and treated more favorably but they also behave differently.”
Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck (2012, positive): “In various settings, Gupta et al. (2005), Garratt et al.”
Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability (2017, background): “…differences in the portfolio of tasks may be that women are more reluctant than men to negotiate (Babcock and Laschever 2003) and to compete (e.g., Gneezy, Niederle, and Rustichini 2003; Niederle and Vesterlund 2007) and thus fail to “lean in” for tasks with high promotability (Sandberg 2013).”
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “On the one hand, Gneezy, Niederle, and Rustichini (2003), for example, found no significant difference in performance by gender under piece rates for a maze-solving task on the computer.”