The Role of the Gender Composition of Performance Feedback on Peers in Shaping Persistence and Performance
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Keywords
Gender Gaps; Competition; Performance Feedback; Gender Composition; Reference Point;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2021-03-01 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GEN-2021-03-01 (Gender)
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