@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5999,
            	author={Kuhn, Peter J. and Villeval, Marie Claire},
            	title={Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?},
            	year={2011},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={5999},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5999},
	abstract={Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production. Using a simple structural discrete choice framework to reconcile these facts, we show that three elements can explain the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about their prospective teammates' relative ability), (2) a greater responsiveness among men to instrumental reasons for joining teams, and (3) a greater "pure" preference for working in a team environment among women.},
	keywords={confidence;gender;self-selection;cooperation;experiment},
            }