The impact of role models on women's self-selection in competitive environments
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Gender; Competition; Role Models;All these keywords.
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- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEN-2018-11-05 (Gender)
- NEP-SPO-2018-11-05 (Sports and Economics)
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