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Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes
van Dolder, Dennie - 2020
avoiding competition against men. When the decision is strategic and contestants should factor in the competitiveness of others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841634
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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715948
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Gender and willingness to compete for high stakes
Buser, Thomas; Dolder, Dennie van; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2020 - Version: February 2020
We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition … plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice … entirely from women avoiding competition against men. When the decision to compete is strategic and contestants should factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164690
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The anatomy of competitiveness
Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023
preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four … different motivations for entering competitions - enjoyment of competition, desire to win, competition for personal development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288265
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The anatomy of competitiveness
Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2023
preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four … different motivations for entering competitions - enjoyment of competition, desire to win, competition for personal development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290494
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status (SES). We further document that there is a positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666016
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status (SES). We further document that there is a positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651717
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status (SES). We further document that there is a positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190676
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Using Genes to Explore the Effects of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023
A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is made difficult by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000358
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Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023
A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is made difficult by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296869