Gender, competitiveness, and career choices

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1409-1447

  Buser, Thomas ^a   Niederle, Muriel ^b   Oosterbeek, Hessel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENDER; LABOR MARKET;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84908590264     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju009     Document Type: Article

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