Gender Differences in Performance under Competition: Is There a Stereotype Threat Shadow?
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- Diogo Geraldes & Arno Riedl & Martin Strobel, 2020. "Gender Differences in Performance under Competition: Is There a Stereotype Threat Shadow?," CESifo Working Paper Series 8809, CESifo.
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Keywords
competitiveness; gender gaps; stereotype threat; experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2021-01-18 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GEN-2021-01-18 (Gender)
- NEP-LAB-2021-01-18 (Labour Economics)
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