| By: |
Marie-Pierre Dargnies (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - CNRS : UMR8174 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, EEP-PSE - Ecole d'Économie de Paris - Paris School of Economics - Ecole d'Économie de Paris) |
| Abstract: |
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a
team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and significant
gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the
literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While
women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more often when it
is team-based, men enter significantly less as part of a team than alone.
Changes in overconfidence as well as in risk, ambiguity and feedback aversion,
the difference in men and women's taste for the uncertainty on their
teammate's ability all account for a part of the disappearance of the gender
gap in tournament entry. A remaining explanation is that being part of a team
changes men and women's taste for performing in a competitive environment. |
| Keywords: |
Gender gap, tournament, teams. |
| Date: |
2009–02 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00367702_v1&r=spo |