@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4955,
            	author={Balafoutas, Loukas and Sutter, Matthias},
            	title={Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions},
            	year={2010},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4955},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4955},
	abstract={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.},
	keywords={gender gap;experiment;affirmative action;teamwork;coordination;competition},
            }