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

IF 0.6 Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Economics Bulletin Pub Date : 2010-01-01 DOI:10.2139/ssrn.1444100

Curtis R. Price

引用次数: 102

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.

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女性会回避竞争吗?男人竞争太多了吗?:复制(失败)

Niederle和Vesterlund(2007)在一个简单的加法任务中记录了男性和女性在支付方案选择上的巨大差异。本文描述了2008年普渡大学(Purdue University)进行的一项纯复制实验，该实验未能复制上述结果。分析表明，尽管其他研究已经重复了之前的结果，但与学生身份(即本科、研究生或其他)相关的信心差异是导致不重复的主要原因。这些结果与最近的研究一致，该研究表明，竞争的性别差异在很大程度上归因于信心和风险偏好的差异，并提出了一个有价值的政策途径，可能有助于减轻性别竞争鸿沟。

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