TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gupta, Nabanita Datta
AU  - Poulsen, Anders
AU  - Villeval, Marie Claire
        TI  - Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
        PY  - 2005/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1833
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1833
        AB  - Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than against women, but compete against women who are thought to compete. The behavior of men seems primarily to be influenced by social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. 
        KW  - competition
KW  - relative ability
KW  - risk-aversion
KW  - gender
KW  - piece rate
KW  - tournament
KW  - experiment
        ER  -