Gender differences in competition: gender equality and cost reduction policies

RELIGION, CHURCH, INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP AND GENDER EQUALITY (An Analysis of Differences in Gender Equality Policies in European Catholic Countries)

During the past decades, processes of (post)modernization have raised the importance of quality-of-life issues and related policies, resulting in a higher salience of intimate citizenship issues on the political agenda. The Catholic Church as an institution especially has been articulating strong positions on issues considered to be about personal and family morality, actively opposing liberali...

Gender Differences in Competition

Negotiating in a highly competitive environment may prove particularly challenging for women. We describe three experimental studies that investigated and documented differences in the competitive behaviors of men and women.The first study examined gender differences in competitive performances. In a setting in which men and women performed at similar levels in single-sex competitions, men were...

Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction through Growth

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...

Matrilineal Kinship and Gender Differences in Competition*

I examine how kinship systems affect gender differences in willingness to compete among individuals from matrilineal and patrilineal societies in Central Africa. These individuals share a common urban environment today, and they are from nearby areas along the border of the matrilineal belt. Individuals participated in a lab experiment in which they completed a task under piece rate pay, tourna...