Replication data for: Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Thomas Buser; Huaiping Yuan

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Project Citation:

Buser, Thomas, and Yuan, Huaiping. Replication data for: Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116353V1

Project Description

Summary: We use lab experiments and field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to show that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In a math competition in the lab, women are much less likely than men to choose competition again after losing in the first round. In the Math Olympiad, girls, but not boys, who fail to make the second round are less likely to compete again one year later. This gender difference in the reaction to competition outcomes may help to explain why fewer women make it to the top in business and academia.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Field data (Math Olympiad); Lab experiment

JEL Classification:
      C90 Design of Experiments: General
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      D91 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

Geographic Coverage: The Netherlands

Time Period(s): 1/29/2010 – 1/29/2015 (Dates refer to the Dutch Olympiad. Experiments were run in Jan 2015 and Jun 2016)

Universe: Math Olympiad data: all participants from the 4th-year pre-university track

Data Type(s): administrative records data; experimental data

Methodology

Data Source: Math Olympiad data: SLO (Dutch science Olympiads organizers), 2010-2015

Unit(s) of Observation: Individuals,

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V1 [2019-12-07]

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