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No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self

Discussion Papers 1638, 35 S.

Coren L. Apicella, Elif E. Demiral, Johanna Mollerstrom

2017

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Published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 107 (2017), 5

Abstract

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingnessto self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and confidence and suggest that these factors can account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting.



JEL-Classification: C90;C91;J16;J71
Keywords: gender, competition, discrimination, experiment
Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149901

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