Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

By Muriel Niederle, Alexandra H. Yestrumskas. 2008

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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters (2013, background): “Individual risk preferences as well as relative performance beliefs have previously been found to influence competitive choices (e.g. Niederle and Vesterlund 2007; Niederle and Yestrumskas 2008).”
Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap. NBER Working Paper No. 14959. (2009, unknown): “Similarly, experimental research by Niederle and Yestrumskas (2008) finds that men take on challenging tasks 50 percent more often than comparably performing women, but that changes in institutional design that provide more flexible choices eliminates the gender gap among high performers.”
Mathematics and Gender: Heterogeneity in Causes and Consequences (2016, unknown): “Niederle and Yestrumskas (2008) find that females are less likely to seek challenges than men with the same abilities and that this is because they have a higher risk aversion or higher uncertainty about their own abilities.”
Outrunning the gender gap—boys and girls compete equally (2011, unknown): “Some studies find that women’s performance, contrary to that of men, depends on the institutional framework and the gender of the opponent(s) (Gneezy et al. 2003; Gneezy & Rustichini 2004; Niederle & Yestrumskas 2008; Price 2008).”