Endogenously Emerging Gender Diversity in an Experimental Team Work Setting

Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch and Bettina Rockenbach

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We study gender diversity and performance in endogenously formed teams. Participants choose to either perform a cooperation task with members of the own gender only or in a mixed-gender team. We find that independent of the team choice, initially men cooperate significantly more than women. In subsequent periods, men prefer the successful men-only teams, resulting in significantly higher profits for men compared to women. Only over time, this endogenously emerged “gender profit gap” closes.

JEL-codes: C92 J71 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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