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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Are women less effective leaders than men? Evidence from experiments using coordination games
Organization Unit	Department of Economics (Florian Scheuer)
Authors	Lea Heursen Eva Ranehill Roberto A. Weber
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	Working paper series / Department of Economics
Number	368
ISSN	1664-705X
Number of Pages	49
Date	2020
Abstract Text	We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to coordinate on efficient equilibria. Group performance hinges on higher-order beliefs about the leader’s capacity to convince followers to pursue desired actions, making beliefs that women are less effective leaders potentially self-confirming. We find no evidence that such bias impacts actual leadership performance, identifying a precisely-estimated null effect. We show that this absence of an effect is surprising given experts’ priors.
Official URL	https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/workingpapers.html?paper-id=1050
Related URLs	https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2020/working-paper/are-women-less-effective-leaders-men-evidence-experiments-using
Other Identification Number	merlin-id:20030
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Keywords	Gender, coordination games, leadership, experiment
Additional Information	Auch publiziert als CESifo Working Paper No. 8713 und Rationality & Competition Discussion Paper No. 472.