{"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://www.uu.nl/en/files/rebousedp20161606pdf"}],"series_title":"TKI Working Paper Series","volume":"16-06","abstract":[{"text":"We study the willingness to compete in a cognitive task among an entire cohort\r\nof fresh man business and economics students. Combining data from a lab-in-thefield\r\nexperiment with university admissions data, we trace the gender gap in\r\ncompetitiveness at different levels of high school performance. Our results confirm\r\nthat, on average, men choose to compete more often. The gender gap disappears,\r\nhowever, among students with above average high school performance. Female high\r\nschool top performers are equally competitive as their male counterparts. In fact,\r\nthe overall gender gap is entirely driven by the group of female high school underperformers\r\nwho shied away from competition, even when they performed well in our\r\ntask. Overall, our findings suggest that high school grades are more than just a\r\nsignal of cognitive abilities, because they seem to influence the receivers selfperception\r\nof his or her performance in a competitive environment involved in later\r\non in life.","lang":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"280"},{"_id":"475"}],"user_id":"42447","oa":"1","citation":{"short":"B. Hoyer, T. van Huizen, L. Keijzer, T. Rezai Khavas, S. Rosenkranz, Do Talented Women Shy Away from Competition?, 2016.","chicago":"Hoyer, Britta, Tomas van Huizen, Linda Keijzer, Tahere Rezai Khavas, and Stephanie Rosenkranz. <i>Do Talented Women Shy Away from Competition?</i> Vol. 16–06. TKI Working Paper Series, 2016.","ama":"Hoyer B, van Huizen T, Keijzer L, Rezai Khavas T, Rosenkranz S. <i>Do Talented Women Shy Away from Competition?</i> Vol 16-06.; 2016.","bibtex":"@book{Hoyer_van Huizen_Keijzer_Rezai Khavas_Rosenkranz_2016, series={TKI Working Paper Series}, title={Do talented women shy away from competition?}, volume={16–06}, author={Hoyer, Britta and van Huizen, Tomas and Keijzer, Linda and Rezai Khavas, Tahere and Rosenkranz, Stephanie}, year={2016}, collection={TKI Working Paper Series} }","mla":"Hoyer, Britta, et al. <i>Do Talented Women Shy Away from Competition?</i> Vol. 16–06, 2016.","apa":"Hoyer, B., van Huizen, T., Keijzer, L., Rezai Khavas, T., &#38; Rosenkranz, S. (2016). <i>Do talented women shy away from competition?</i> (Vol. 16–06).","ieee":"B. Hoyer, T. van Huizen, L. Keijzer, T. Rezai Khavas, and S. Rosenkranz, <i>Do talented women shy away from competition?</i>, vol. 16–06. 2016."},"type":"working_paper","title":"Do talented women shy away from competition?","date_created":"2018-04-06T07:54:42Z","author":[{"last_name":"Hoyer","full_name":"Hoyer, Britta","first_name":"Britta","id":"42447"},{"first_name":"Tomas","last_name":"van Huizen","full_name":"van Huizen, Tomas"},{"last_name":"Keijzer","full_name":"Keijzer, Linda","first_name":"Linda"},{"last_name":"Rezai Khavas","full_name":"Rezai Khavas, Tahere","first_name":"Tahere"},{"full_name":"Rosenkranz, Stephanie","last_name":"Rosenkranz","first_name":"Stephanie"}],"status":"public","date_updated":"2022-01-06T06:55:35Z","year":"2016","_id":"2252"}