Title
Pricing Competition: A New Laboratory Measure of Gender Differences in the Willingness to Compete
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2016
Publisher
Springer
Abstract
Experiments have demonstrated that men are more willing to compete than women. We develop a new instrument to “price” willingness to compete. We find that men value a $2.00 winner-take-all payment significantly more (about $0.28 more) than women; and that women require a premium (about 40 %) to compete. Our new instrument is more sensitive than the traditional binary-choice instrument, and thus, enables us to identify relationships that are not identifiable using the traditional binary-choice instrument. We find that subjects who are the most willing to compete have high ability, higher GPA’s (men), and take more STEM courses (women).
Recommended Citation
Ifcher, J., & Zarghamee, H. (2016). Pricing competition: a new laboratory measure of gender differences in the willingness to compete. Experimental Economics, 19(3), 642–662.
Comments
The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-015-9458-8.