{"type":"journal_article","publication":"Labour Economics","title":"Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field","date_created":"2020-03-09T12:35:49Z","publication_status":"epub_ahead","status":"public","author":[{"full_name":"Hoyer, Britta","last_name":"Hoyer","id":"42447","first_name":"Britta"},{"last_name":"van Huizen","full_name":"van Huizen, Thomas","first_name":"Thomas"},{"first_name":"Linda ","full_name":"Keijzer, Linda ","last_name":"Keijzer"},{"full_name":"Rezaei, Sarah ","last_name":"Rezaei","first_name":"Sarah "},{"last_name":"Rosenkranz","full_name":"Rosenkranz, Stephanie","first_name":"Stephanie"},{"last_name":"Westbrock","full_name":"Westbrock, Bastian ","first_name":"Bastian "}],"date_updated":"2022-01-06T06:52:47Z","_id":"16273","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"year":"2020","abstract":[{"text":"This study examines the gender gap in competitiveness in an educational setting\r\nand tests whether this gap depends on the difficulty of the task at hand. For this purpose,\r\nwe administered a series of experiments during the final exam of a university\r\ncourse. We confronted three cohorts of undergraduate students with a set of bonus\r\nquestions and the choice between an absolute and a tournament grading scheme\r\nfor these questions. To test the moderating impact of task difficulty, we (randomly)\r\nvaried the difficulty of the questions between treatment groups. We find that, on\r\naverage, women are significantly less likely to select the tournament scheme. However,\r\nthe results show that the gender gap in tournament entry is sizable when the\r\nquestions are relative easy, but much smaller and statistical insignificant when the\r\nquestions are difficult.","lang":"eng"}],"doi":"10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815","department":[{"_id":"280"},{"_id":"475"}],"citation":{"chicago":"Hoyer, Britta, Thomas van Huizen, Linda  Keijzer, Sarah  Rezaei, Stephanie Rosenkranz, and Bastian  Westbrock. “Gender, Competitiveness, and Task Difficulty: Evidence from the Field.” <i>Labour Economics</i>, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815</a>.","bibtex":"@article{Hoyer_van Huizen_Keijzer_Rezaei_Rosenkranz_Westbrock_2020, title={Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815\">10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815</a>}, journal={Labour Economics}, author={Hoyer, Britta and van Huizen, Thomas and Keijzer, Linda  and Rezaei, Sarah  and Rosenkranz, Stephanie and Westbrock, Bastian }, year={2020} }","ama":"Hoyer B, van Huizen T, Keijzer L, Rezaei S, Rosenkranz S, Westbrock B. Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field. <i>Labour Economics</i>. 2020. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815\">10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815</a>","short":"B. Hoyer, T. van Huizen, L. Keijzer, S. Rezaei, S. Rosenkranz, B. Westbrock, Labour Economics (2020).","ieee":"B. Hoyer, T. van Huizen, L. Keijzer, S. Rezaei, S. Rosenkranz, and B. Westbrock, “Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field,” <i>Labour Economics</i>, 2020.","apa":"Hoyer, B., van Huizen, T., Keijzer, L., Rezaei, S., Rosenkranz, S., &#38; Westbrock, B. (2020). Gender, competitiveness, and task difficulty: Evidence from the field. <i>Labour Economics</i>. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815</a>","mla":"Hoyer, Britta, et al. “Gender, Competitiveness, and Task Difficulty: Evidence from the Field.” <i>Labour Economics</i>, 2020, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815\">10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101815</a>."},"user_id":"42447"}