The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning
18 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2015 Last revised: 15 Apr 2021
Date Written: June 1, 2015
Abstract
We design an all-pay auction experiment in which we reveal the gender of the opponent. Using this design, we find that women bid higher than men, but only when bidding against other women. These findings, interpreted through a theoretical model incorporating differences in risk attitude and the value of winning, suggest that women have a higher value of winning than men.
Keywords: experiments, all-pay auction, competitiveness, gender differences
JEL Classification: C91, J3, J7
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Chen, Zhuoqiong and Ong, David and Sheremeta, Roman M., The Gender Difference in the Value of Winning (June 1, 2015). Economics Letters, 137, 226-229, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2639908 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2639908
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