Competition, confidence and gender : Shifting the focus from the overconfident to the realistic

Lénárd, Tünde, Horn, Dániel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-6240 and Kiss, Hubert János ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3666-9331 (2024) Competition, confidence and gender : Shifting the focus from the overconfident to the realistic. Journal of Economic Psychology, 104 . DOI 10.1016/j.joep.2024.102746

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Abstract

The gender gap in competitiveness is argued to explain gender differences in later life outcomes, including career choices and the gender wage gap. In experimental settings, a prevalent explanation attributes this gap to males being more (over)confident than females (we call this the compositional channel). While our lab-in-the-field study using data from students in 53 classrooms (

Item Type:

Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Adolescents ; Competitiveness ; Confidence ; Gender ; Experiment

JEL classification:

C90 - Design of Experiments: General
D91 - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

Divisions:

Institute of Economics

Subjects:

Psychology

DOI:

10.1016/j.joep.2024.102746

ID Code:

10992

Deposited By:

MTMT SWORD

Deposited On:

10 Mar 2025 09:55