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Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much? : A (failed) replication

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Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) document a large disparity between male and female choices in payment scheme in a simple addition task. This note describes a pure replication conducted at Purdue University in 2008 that fails to replicate these results. Analysis suggests that, although other studies have replicated the previous result, a difference in confidence which is correlated with student status (i.e. undergraduate, graduate or other) is the main contributor to the non-replication. These results are in line with recent research which suggests that much of the gender difference for competition is attributed to differences in confidence and risk preferences and proposes a valuable policy avenue which may help to attenuate the gender competition divide.

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  • Curtis R. Price, 2020. "Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much? : A (failed) replication," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(2), pages 1538-1547.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-19-00832
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    2. Markowsky, Eva & Beblo, Miriam, 2022. "When do we observe a gender gap in competition entry? A meta-analysis of the experimental literature," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 198(C), pages 139-163.

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    Replication; Gender; Competition; Experiments;
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    • C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations

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