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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?

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Lena Nekby () (Stockholm University and IZA)
Peter Skogman Thoursie () (Stockholm University)
Lars Vahtrik () (Stockholm University)

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Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2794.

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Date of creation: May 2007
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Keywords: overconfidence competitiveness gender differences

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J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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