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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors (Goldberg (1981), McCrae and Costa JR (2003)), where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in achievement settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by neuroticism and further that neuroticism is negatively related to performance in competiton. This raises the possibility that those women who do not choose competitive incentives "know" that they should not.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 511

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Industrial Organization: General
Thema
Gender
Personality
Big Five
Five-factor Model
Competition
Experiment
Frauen
Wettbewerb
Geschlecht
Persönlichkeitspsychologie
Test

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Müller, Julia
Schwieren, Christiane
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2011

DOI
doi:10.11588/heidok.00011782
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-117828
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Müller, Julia
  • Schwieren, Christiane
  • University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2011

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