Gender gaps in Mathematics and Language: The bias of competitive achievement tests

O Arias, C Canals, A Mizala, F Meneses - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This research paper examines the extent to which high-stakes competitive tests affect
gender gaps in standardized tests of Mathematics and Language. To this end, we estimate …

The stereotype that girls lack talent: A worldwide investigation

C Napp, T Breda - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent research has shown that there exist gender stereotypes that portray men as more
brilliant or inherently talented than women. We provide a large-scale multinational …

[BOOK][B] Evaluating research: Methodology for people who need to read research

FC Dane - 2009 - books.google.com
Aids students in understanding and interpreting quantitative research articles Designed for
anyone who needs to learn to read and understand empirical reports in the social and …

Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures

T Buser, M Niederle, H Oosterbeek - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor
market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability

T Buser, E Ranehill, R Van Veldhuizen - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be
driven by a gender gap in willingness to compete. However, whereas experiments in this …

Culture and gender differences in willingness to compete

KE Hauge, A Kotsadam, A Riege - The Economic Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how culture affects gender differences in willingness to compete in a large
pre-registered experiment using an epidemiological approach. Our sample of 1,943 …

Can simple advice eliminate the gender gap in willingness to compete?

D Kessel, J Mollerstrom, R Van Veldhuizen - European Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
As a recent literature has demonstrated, men and women differ in their willingness to sort
into competitive environments. In particular, men are more willing than women to compete …

Individual characteristics associated with risk and time preferences: A multi country representative survey

T Meissner, X Gassmann, C Faure… - Journal of Risk and …, 2023 - Springer
This paper empirically analyzes how individual characteristics are associated with risk
aversion, loss aversion, time discounting, and present bias. To this end, we conduct a large …

[PDF][PDF] Who wears a mask? Gender differences in risk behaviors in the COVID-19 early days in Taiwan

Y Chuang, JCE Liu - Economics Bulletin, 2020 - yatingchuang.com
We evaluate mask-wearing behaviors in response to COVID-19 based on 12,208
observations in February 2020 in Taiwan. We find that, compared to men, women are 16 …

Gender, choice of task, and the effect of feedback on competition: An experiment

A Baier, B Davis, T Jaber-Lopez - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine gender differences in task choices and
competitiveness: Individuals have the option to self-select into one of two stereotypically …