I (DON'T) LIKE YOU! BUT WHO CARES? GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SAME-SEX AND MIXED-SEX TEAMS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gerhards, Leonie; Kosfeld, Michael
• 署名单位: University of Hamburg; Goethe University Frankfurt
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uez067
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 716-739
• 关键词: Beauty; COOPERATION; trust; gap; performance

摘要

We study the effect of likeability on women's and men's team behaviour in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likeability, we find that female teams lower their contribution to the public good in the event of low likeability, while male teams achieve high levels of co-operation irrespective of the level of mutual likeability. In mixed-sex teams, both women's and men's contributions depend on mutual likeability. Similar results are found in the minimum effort game. Our results offer a new perspective on gender differences in labour market outcomes: mutual dislikeability impedes team behaviour, except in all-male teams.