A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness
回顾了竞争力这一行为特质在性别议题中的作用,介绍了实验室测量方法,证实了性别差异的稳健性,并展示了实验测量与教育、劳动力市场结果的相关性,最后探讨了制度差异对性别经济结果的影响。
I review the role of a new behavioral trait, competitiveness, on the gender agenda. I first describe how to measure competitiveness in the laboratory and show that gender differences in competitiveness are robust. I then establish the external economic relevance of the experimental measure of competitiveness: competitiveness correlates with education and labor market outcomes and can help account for gender differences therein. Finally, institutions can differ in the importance they place on competitiveness and hence can affect gender differences in economic outcomes. Exploring these institutional differences and their effects remains an open area of behavioral market design.