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Performance uncertainty and the level of female participation on tournaments

Description du projet

Quels facteurs poussent les femmes à participer à des compétitions?

Des recherches ont montré que les hommes et les femmes réagissent différemment lorsqu’ils/elles ont l’occasion de participer à des compétitions, les femmes faisant preuve de moins d’enthousiasme. Le projet GAPINCOMPETITION, relevant des Actions Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), entend faire la lumière sur les conditions qui poussent les femmes à se montrer plus compétitives. Dans le cadre de la «phase extérieure», le projet examinera la manière dont la décision de participer à une compétition varie d’un sexe à l’autre, en particulier lorsque les concurrents ont conscience de leurs propres compétences et de celles de leurs adversaires. Dans la «phase interne», le projet étudiera les éléments nécessaires, en termes de différences de compétences, pour encourager la participation des femmes à une compétition. Les travaux du projet peuvent contribuer à augmenter le nombre de femmes dans les compétitions.

Objectif

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.

Coordinateur

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 171 521,28
Adresse
DUMLUPINAR BULVARI 1
06800 Ankara
Turquie

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Région
Batı Anadolu Ankara Ankara
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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