Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership

Autor(en)

Gyöngyi Loranth, Sule Alan, Seda Ertac, Elif Kubilay

Abstrakt

Using data from a large-scale field experiment, we show that while there is no gender difference in the willingness to make risky decisions on behalf of a group in a sample of children, a large gap emerges in a sample of adolescents. The proportion of girls who exhibit leadership willingness drops by 39% going from childhood to adolescence. We explore the possible factors behind this drop and find that it is largely associated with a dramatic decline in “social confidence”, measured by the willingness to perform a real effort task in public.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Finanzwirtschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Koc University, European University Institute (EUI), Bilkent University, University of Essex

Journal

The Economic Journal

Band

130

Seiten

263–289

ISSN

0013-0133

Publikationsdatum

09-2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

502009 Finanzwirtschaft

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0d4e17de-80ce-4afa-b9ad-c39bc07394a8