Gender differences in attitudes towards competition. Evidence from the Italian scientific qualification.

Autor/inn/en	De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Gender differences in attitudes towards competition. Evidence from the Italian scientific qualification. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Einstellungen zum Wettbewerb. Erkenntnisse über Beförderungen im italienischen Wissenschaftssystem.
Quelle	Bonn (2015), 23 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 8859
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Risikobereitschaft; Selbstbewusstsein; Frau; Wettbewerb; Beruflicher Aufstieg; Hochschullehrer; Akademiker; Geschlechtsspezifik; Präferenz; Mann; Italien
Abstract	We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field characteristics, we find that females have a lower probability of applying for competition of about 4 percentage points. The determinants of this gap seem to be gender differences in risk-aversion and self-confidence and women's fear of discrimination: the lower tendency to enter competition is especially relevant for women in the lower tail of the distribution of scientific productivity and in fields in which productivity is not easily measurable; furthermore, women are less likely to apply for promotion in fields in which promotions of females in the past were rare. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/3