%0 Report
        %A Balafoutas, Loukas
%A Sutter, Matthias
        %T Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4955
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4955
        %X 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.
        %K gender gap
%K experiment
%K affirmative action
%K teamwork
%K coordination
%K competition