Women can’t jump? – An experiment on competitive attitudes and stereotype threat
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Gneezy et al. (2003) offer a partial explanation for the wage gap between men and women. In an experiment they found that women react less to competitive incentives. The task they used in their experiment can however be considered a male task. This allows for an interpretation of their results as stemming from stereotype threat rather than from a general behavioural tendency of women. We replicate the experiment and extend it by a treatment with a gender neutral task. For the male task we replicate the results from Gneezy et al. (2003), but for the neutral task women react as strongly to incentives than men. Our findings suggest a stereotype threat explanation. Women tend not to compete with men in areas where they (rightly or wrongly) think that they will lose anyway.
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