Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
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- Müller, Julia & Schwieren, Christiane, 2012. "Can personality explain what is underlying women’s unwillingness to compete?," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 448-460.
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Keywords
Gender; Personality; Big Five; Five-factor Model; Competition; Experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2011-04-23 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-04-23 (Labour Economics)
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