Gender and preferences in the labor market: Insights from experiments

L Lozano, E Ranehill, E Reuben - Handbook of labor, human resources …, 2022‏ - Springer
Despite increased female educational attainment and labor market participation, labor
markets around the world remain characterized by vertical and horizontal gender …

Breaking gender barriers: Experimental evidence on men in pink-collar jobs

A Delfino - American Economic Review, 2024‏ - aeaweb.org
I investigate men's limited entry into female-dominated sectors through a large-scale field
experiment. The design exogenously varies recruitment messages by showing photographs …

[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 …

Gender stereotypes in deliberation and team decisions

K Coffman, CB Flikkema, O Shurchkov - Games and Economic Behavior, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We explore how groups deliberate and decide on ideas in an experiment with
communication. We find that gender biases play a significant role in which group members …

Gender differences in tournament choices: Risk preferences, overconfidence or competitiveness?

R Veldhuizen - 2017‏ - epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de
A large number of recent experimental studies show that women are less likely to sort into
competitive environments. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences …

Gender differences in behavioral traits and labor market outcomes

O Shurchkov, CC Eckel - The Oxford handbook of women and …, 2018‏ - books.google.com
Despite a recent policy push toward equality, considerable gender gaps in earnings and
representation in senior management persist. The infamous earnings gap of 77 cents on the …

Gender differences in tournament choices: Risk preferences, overconfidence, or competitiveness?

R Van Veldhuizen - Journal of the European Economic …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
A long line of laboratory experiments has found that women are less likely to sort into
competitive environments. Although part of this effect may be explained by gender …

Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population✰

A Boschini, A Dreber, E Von Essen, A Muren… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Experimental results from student and other non-representative convenience samples often
suggest that men, on average, are more risk taking and competitive than women. We …

Competition and gender: Time's up on essentialist knowledge production

S Mavin, M Yusupova - Management Learning, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This article is an intervention in current trends of thinking about competition and gender in
essentialist and stereotypical ways. Such thinking has produced numerous comparative …

Perception matters: The role of task gender stereotype on confidence and tournament selection

B Halladay, R Landsman - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Women avoid competition even when they can benefit from potential rewards. It may be that
a gender difference in beliefs about future performance drives this gap. Using a laboratory …