Women are not always less competitive than men: Evidence from Come Dine with Me

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1099-1101

  Ahmed, Ali M ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENDER DISPARITY; MEDIA ROLE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 79960873519     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2010.524609     Document Type: Article

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