Do Women give up Competing more easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad
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- Thomas Buser & Huaiping Yuan, 2019. "Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 11(3), pages 225-252, July.
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Keywords
willingness to compete; gender; feedback; career decisions; laboratory experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- 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-DEM-2016-11-20 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2016-11-20 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GEN-2016-11-20 (Gender)
- NEP-LAB-2016-11-20 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SPO-2016-11-20 (Sports and Economics)
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