Arbeitspapier

Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women to compete significantly more often than in a control treatment, while efficiency in selecting the best candidates as winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2010-12

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Thema
Competition
gender gap
experiment
affirmative action
teamwork
coordination
Verhaltensökonomik
Wettbewerb
Geschlecht
Frauenpolitik
Arbeitsgruppe
Test

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Balafoutas, Loukas
Sutter, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance
(wo)
Innsbruck
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Balafoutas, Loukas
  • Sutter, Matthias
  • University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance

Entstanden

  • 2010

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