Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance: Evidence from a Two-stage Competition in Mathematics

Autor:	Nagore Iriberri, Pedro Rey-Biel
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics 05 social sciences Competitive pressure Two stages Competition (economics) Age groups 0502 economics and business Economics Demographic economics Gender gap Stage (hydrology) 050207 economics Social psychology 050203 business & management Selection (genetic algorithm)
Zdroj:	The Economic Journal. 129:1863-1893
ISSN:	1468-0297 0013-0133
Popis:	In two-stage elimination math contests, participants from four different age groups compete to pass from stage 1 to stage 2 and later to be among the winners. Although female participants have higher maths grades at school the gender gap reverses in the two stages of the contests. More importantly, following the same individual participant across different stages, we find that the gender gap in performance increases from stage 1 to stage 2. The increase in female underperformance is attributed to higher competitive pressure and alternative explanations based on selection, discrimination and differences in reaction to increasing difficulty are ruled out.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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