Gender and Competition

By Muriel Niederle, Lise Vesterlund. 2011

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Competitive climate and workaholism: Negative sides of future orientation and calling (2016, background): “Previous studies suggested that gender and age are related to competitive climates (Fletcher et al., 2008; Niederle & Vesterlund, 2011) and workaholism (Mazzetti, Schaufeli, & Guglielmi, 2014; Schaufeli, Taris, & Bakker, 2008).”
Thar SHE Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets† (2015, background): “Furthermore, given the choice, women avoid competitive environments, while men choose to compete even when they are likely to lose (Niederle and Vesterlund 2007; see Croson and Gneezy 2009 or Niederle and Vesterlund 2011 for surveys).”
Gender and international diversity improves equity in peer review (2018, background): “Furthermore, women have been found to be 68 less likely to compete [48] and hold themselves to higher standards [49], hence they 69 may self-select a higher quality of work for submission to prestigious journals.”
Confidence matching in group decision-making (2017, neutral): “Participants still matched their confidence: their mean confidence was correlated in the social condition only (Figure 2A) and the difference in their mean confidence was smaller in the social than in the isolated condition (Figure 2B; t(9) = 2.”
Gender, Competitiveness, and Socialization at a Young Age: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society (2013, background): “…were explained to them in the local language (Khasi or Kharbi, depending on tribe).6 In previous literature, it has been shown that whether the task is in the male or female domain can have an impact on the gender gap in competitiveness (see Niederle & Vesterlund, 2011, and its references).”
The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture (2014, background): “For example, Booth and Nolen (2012) and Booth (2009) show that school gender peer effects can explain why girls in girls-only school behave more like boys taking on more risks.”
How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness (2013, neutral): “…fail to make payoff-maximizing tournamententry decisions, and that these decisions vary by gender.2 For example, Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), 2 See Croson and Gneezy (2009) and Niederle and Vesterlund (2011) for reviews of the literature on gender differences in willingness to compete.”
Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction (2011, neutral): “See Booth (2009) for a detailed discussion on the relationship between psychological and sociological factors and the gender pay gap and glass ceiling phenomena.”
Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals (2015, background): “…participants the opportunity to earn money by answering simple arithmetic problems under two different incentive schemes: piece-rate and tournament.2 In the 1 See Niederle and Vesterlund (2011) and Dariel et al. (2017) for surveys of published work on gender differences in taste for competition.”