Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

By Thomas Buser, Muriel Niederle, Hessel Oosterbeek. 2012

491 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/afbc7edc0c6019a8be1633d8180acdb0110cc317

Citations in the corpus

• GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE TO BIG STAKES (2016, unknown): “Camerer and Hogarth (1999) review the experimental results and conclude that the size of the monetary payoff has little effect on effort choice.”
• Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad (2016, unknown): “A full year after their first participation, girls who lose are still significantly less likely to participate 29 See Buser, Niederle, and Oosterbeek ( 2014 ) and Buser, Peter, and Wolter ( 2017a ) . again.”
• The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, unknown): “Buser, Niederle, and Oosterbeek (2014) collected data on the competitiveness of high school students in the Netherlands through in-class experiments and then tracked their subsequent education choices across four study profiles at age fifteen.”
• Why women don’t run: Experimental evidence on gender differences in political competition aversion (2015, unknown): “Gender differences in competitiveness have been well documented in laboratory ettings (Croson and Gneezy, 2009; Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007; Niederle and Vesterlund, 2011; Flory et al., 2014) and ave been linked to gender differences in education and labor market outcomes (Buser et al., 2014).”
• Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters (2013, unknown): “For example, students that self-select into laboratory competitions using mathematical tasks are more willing to take a high school entrance exam than students less inclined to compete (Zhang 2010) and are more likely to choose more math oriented and prestigious university majors (Buser et al. 2012)”
• Economic behavior of children and adolescents – A first survey of experimental economics results (2019, unknown): “Most studies with children and adolescents document a strong gender gap in the willingness to compete (Booth and Nolen, 2012a; Andersen et al., 2013; Buser et al., 2014; Dreber et al., 2014; Sutter and Glätzle-Rützler, 2015; Almås et al., 2016; Sutter et al., 2016).”
• Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work (2020, unknown): “See, for example, Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), Buser et al. (2014), Antecol et al. (2018), Ceci et al. (2014), Reuben et al. (2017), and Ginther and Kahn (2004). relationship between coauthorship and tenure and argue that none can fully explain the observed empirical patterns.”
• Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias* (2019, unknown): “Gender differences in confidence and competitiveness have negative consequences for women’s performance, as well as their educational and occupational choices (Coffman, 2014; Buser et al., 2014; Reuben et al., 2015; Kugler et al., 2017).”