Gender Differences in Competition and Sabotage

Konferenzbeitrag

We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and females do not differ in their achievements in the real effort task but in their choice of sabotage. Males select significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real effort task especially if the opponent is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their implications.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Experiments on Gender Differences ; No. G05-V2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dato, Simon ; Nieken, Petra
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79750
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET