Choosing to compete: How different are girls and boys?

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 542-555

  Booth, Alison ^a,b   Nolen, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitive behavior; Experiment; Gender; Piece rate; Tournament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856217222     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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