TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Reuben, Ernesto
AU  - Rey-Biel, Pedro
AU  - Sapienza, Paola
AU  - Zingales, Luigi
        TI  - The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
        PY  - 2010/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5300
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5300
        AB  - We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance. We study three potential explanations for the underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate past performance to the group, and in the reaction to monetary incentives. We find that men’s overconfidence is the driving force behind the observed prevalence of male representation.
        KW  - overconfidence
KW  - discrimination
KW  - gender gap
KW  - glass ceiling
KW  - leadership
        ER  -