Journal Article
Understanding gender differences in leadership
Authors
Publication date
2019
Summary
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.
Published in
Economic Journal
ISSN
16
Subjects
Psychology, Young People, and Economics
Links
University of Essex Research Repository - http://repository.essex.ac.uk/24135/
Notes
(In Press)
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