Team competition: Eliminating the gender gap in competitiveness
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It is often found that women do not like competitive environments as much as men do (Niederle and Vesterlund (2007), Booth (2009)...). This research studies the gender differences in competitiveness in the case of team competition. While women do not enter the tournament significantly more often when it is team-based, men enter significantly less when they are part of a team rather than alone. The main change comes from high-performing men who opt out of team competition because they do not want to take the chance of being matched with a less efficient teammate.
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