Gender and competition

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 601-630

  Niederle, Muriel ^a,b   Vesterlund, Lise ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of education; Experiments; Labor economics; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051768887     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-111809-125122     Document Type: Review

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