Cancelling out early age gender differences in competition: an analysis of policy interventions

Matthias Sutter, Daniela Glätzle-Rützler, Loukas Balafoutas and Simon Czermak ()
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Simon Czermak: Management Center Innsbruck

Experimental Economics, 2016, vol. 19, issue 2, No 9, 412-432

Abstract: Abstract We study the willingness to compete of 588 children and teenagers aged ten to seventeen. We replicate the gender difference in tournament entry choices usually found in the literature for adults. We then show that policy interventions like quotas and preferential treatment help to close down the gender gap without leading to losses in efficiency, during or after a tournament. Given that differences in competitive behavior are prevalent from an early age, the application of interventions to promote females in competitions may be desirable already at early ages to promote equal chances for women on labor markets later on.

Keywords: Tournaments; Gender gap; Affirmative action; Experiment; Children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D03 D04 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10683-015-9447-y

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