Projektbeschreibung
Was bringt eine Frau dazu, an einem Wettkampf teilzunehmen?
Forschungen haben gezeigt, dass Männer und Frauen unterschiedlich reagieren, wenn sie die Chance auf die Teilnahme an einem Wettbewerb bekommen, wobei die Bereitschaft bei Frauen weniger ausgeprägt ist. Das im Rahmen der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen ausgerichtete Projekt GAPINCOMPETITION verfolgt das Ziel, die Bedingungen aufzuklären, unter denen Frauen wettbewerbsfreudiger werden. In der „Ausgangsphase“ wird das Projekt erforschen, worin sich die Entscheidung, an einem Wettkampf teilzunehmen, bei den verschiedenen Geschlechtern unterscheidet, und das insbesondere dann, wenn man sich der eigenen Fähigkeiten und der der Konkurrierenden bewusst ist. In der „Eingangsphase“ wird es der Frage nachgehen, was im Hinblick auf die unterschiedlichen Kompetenzen nötig wäre, um Frauen zu ermutigen, an einem Wettbewerb teilzunehmen. Die Projektarbeit kann dazu beitragen, die Zahl der Frauen in Konkurrenzpositionen zu erhöhen.
Ziel
In business life, academics, nonprofits, and politics, it is commonly observed that women enter competitive positions less often than men. This may stem mainly from two facts: 1) Women do not prefer competitive environments; 2) They are discriminated against in competitive environments. The literature starting from Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) focuses on the first fact. Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) show that although there is no performance difference between men and women, women prefer competitive environments less often than men. The aim of this project is to understand the (information) conditions under which females become more competitive. The promise of the project is important because it may be possible to increase the number of females in the competitive positions with a proper information design. In this project, I plan to use a similar set up to rank-order tournaments, i.e. performance is the sum of effort (transformation of skill) and chance. In the outgoing phase, I aim to understand how tournament entry decision differ across genders when subjects know both their own and their competitors’ skills but they have different types of information about the chance component: one being that the chance component is drawn from a known distribution (uncertainty), the other one being that it is drawn from an unknown distribution (ambiguity). This part of the project will be carried out in UCSD under the supervision of Prof. Uri Gneezy. I will then return to METU to continue the project for 12 months under the supervision of Prof. Serkan Kucuksenel. In the incoming phase, I aim to understand what should be the skill differences for males and females to encourage (discourage) females (males) to enter tournament by knowing that they have higher (lower) skill than males (females). Through the proposed research, I will be able to work with leading scholars in behavioral economics and my research agenda will advance with the help of new connections and skills.
Schlüsselbegriffe
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
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