Replication: Do women shy away from competition? Experimental evidence from China

Fredrik Carlsson, Elina Lampi, Peter Martinsson and Xiaojun Yang

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, vol. 81, issue C

Abstract: We investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a lab-in-the-field experiment and a subject pool consisting of Chinese adults following the design by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007). China provides an interesting environment to study since the country has promoted gender equality for a long time and the gender gap in earnings is small in cross-country comparisons. However, in many respects, China is still a patriarchal society. Our results show that women perform equally well as men in a piece-rate task and significantly better in a competitive payment environment. Despite this, men are more than twice as likely to choose a competitive environment. This gender difference cannot be explained by differences in confidence or risk preferences.

Keywords: Competition; Gender difference; Experiments; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2020.102312

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