Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck.
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is indep...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2011
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