TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Balafoutas, Loukas
AU  - Sutter, Matthias
        TI  - Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
        PY  - 2010/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4955
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4955
        AB  - Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women to compete significantly more often than in a control treatment, while efficiency in selecting the best candidates as winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend.
        KW  - gender gap
KW  - experiment
KW  - affirmative action
KW  - teamwork
KW  - coordination
KW  - competition
        ER  -