How Costly Is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
By Muriel Niederle, Carmit Segal, Lise Vesterlund. Management Sciences, 2013
434 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Safety Research
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Rohini Pande
- Emmanuel Dechenaux
- Dan Kovenock
- Esther Duflo
- Roman M. Sheremeta
- Lori Beaman
- P. Topalova
- M. Ibáñez
In Gender Studies
- Esther Duflo
- Rohini Pande
- Gerhard Riener
- M. Ibáñez
- P. Topalova
- Lori Beaman
- Nabanita Datta Gupta
- Roman M. Sheremeta
In Safety Research
- Emmanuel Dechenaux
- Dan Kovenock
- Rohini Pande
- Roman M. Sheremeta
- Esther Duflo
- Lori Beaman
- M. Ibáñez
- Nabanita Datta Gupta
Citations in the corpus
- Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices (2012, neutral): “JEL-codes: C9, I20, J24, J16 Keywords: field and laboratory experiments, economics of education, competitiveness”
- Sorting through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments in Colombia (2017, background): “Laboratory experiments that consider self-selection into a tournament support the use of affirmative action rules to incentivize women to enter into competitive environments (Balafoutas and Sutter 2012; Calsamiglia, Franke, and Rey-Biel 2013; Niederle et al. 2013; Balafoutas, Davis, and Sutter 2016)”
- Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India (2012, positive): “Bilateral comparisons with the control treatment CTR reveal that the frequency of competing women is significantly higher in PT1 [c(2)(1) = 5.”
- Taste for Competition and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals (2015, neutral): “This effect is small and statistically Sutter, 2012; Niederle, Segal, and Vesterlund, 2013).”
- GENDER MATCHING AND COMPETITIVENESS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE (2013, positive): “This suggests that more targeted policies are necessary to reduce this gap in competitiveness, such as affirmative action (Niederle et al., 2008), quotas or preferential treatment (Balafoutas and Sutter, 2010).”
- A survey of experimental research on contests, all-pay auctions and tournaments (2014, positive): “Niederle et al. (2013) find that, although affirmative action (towards women) encourages entry by women into tournaments, it may come at the cost of discouraging entry by men.”