Arbeitspapier
Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes
We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice between continuing to compete and opting out in exchange for a comparatively modest prize. When strategic considerations are absent, we observe the well-known pattern that women are less likely to compete than men, but this difference derives entirely from women avoiding competition against men. When the decision to compete is strategic and contestants should factor in the competitiveness of others, women again avoid competing against men. Men, in turn, seem to anticipate the lower competitiveness of female opponents, as evidenced by their greater tendency to compete against women. Ability differences are unlikely to explain these results. The findings underline the importance of the gender of competitors for the analysis of differences in willingness to compete, and shed new light on the persistent gender gap at the male-dominated higher rungs of the career ladder.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2020-011/I
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
- Thema
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gender differences
competitiveness
willingness to compete
game show
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Buser, Thomas
van Dolder, Dennie
van den Assem, Martijn
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Buser, Thomas
- van Dolder, Dennie
- van den Assem, Martijn
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2020
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