Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
By David Gill, Victoria Prowse. Social Science Research Network, 2012
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In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at stake is big enough. Responses to luck are more persistent and explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research
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- Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad (2016, unknown): “Gill and Prowse ( 2014 ) similarly finds that women are more prone than men to reduce their performance after losing a competition.”
- Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment (2012, background): “Gill and Prowse (2010) find that the gender difference has to do with how men and women react to losses and the size of losses in tournaments.”