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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Margit Osterloh Recommends “Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?” by Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund
Author : Margit Osterloh
Published in: 21st Century Economics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Gender differences in preferences receive huge attention in the popular press. However, in economics this issue was neglected for a long time. Today, the situation has completely changed. To a great extent, this is due to Niederle and Vesterlund’s article, which was among the first to address whether women and men differ in their attitudes to competition. A series of laboratory and field studies confirm that women shy away from competition with men, and women underperform when competing against men.