Compétition en équipe. Les hommes sont-ils moins coopératifs que les femmes ?

Marie-Pierre Dargnies

Revue économique, 2011, vol. 62, issue 1, 113-125

Abstract: What makes the members of a team cooperate is a question essential to labor economists and is all the more important when teams are competing against each others. In this case, having some team members free-ride weakens the team?s chances of winning. A recent literature shows that men and women differ in their taste for evolving in competitive environments. The present paper studies men and women?s behavior when offered the option to enter a team-based competition depending on the modalities of team composition. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more often when it is team-based, men and, more specifically, high-performing men, enter significantly less as part of a team than alone. The results suggest that men?s withdrawal from team-based competition could come from their fear of being subjected to free-riding on the part of their teammate. Classification JEL : D81, C91.

JEL-codes: C91 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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