The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments

Ernesto Reuben, Pedro Rey-Biel, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales

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Résumé

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance. We study three potential explanations for the underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate past performance to the group, and in the reaction to monetary incentives. We find that men's overconfidence is the driving force behind the observed prevalence of male representation.
langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)111-117
journalJournal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume83
Numéro de publication1
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 2012
Modification externeOui

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