Do women shy away from competition? Do men compete too much?: A (failed) replication

Curtis Price ()

Economics Bulletin, 2020, vol. 40, issue 2, 1538-1547

Abstract: Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) document a large disparity between male and female choices in payment scheme in a simple addition task. This note describes a pure replication conducted at Purdue University in 2008 that fails to replicate these results. Analysis suggests that, although other studies have replicated the previous result, a difference in confidence which is correlated with student status (i.e. undergraduate, graduate or other) is the main contributor to the non-replication. These results are in line with recent research which suggests that much of the gender difference for competition is attributed to differences in confidence and risk preferences and proposes a valuable policy avenue which may help to attenuate the gender competition divide.

Keywords: Replication; Gender; Competition; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-02
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