Gender differences in competition and sabotage
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Gender Differences in Competition and Sabotage
We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent’s output, we find that males and females do not differ in their achievements in the real effort task but in their choice of sabotage. Males select significantly more sabotage leading to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0167-2681
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.01.012