La prochaine séance du séminaire Hotelling, commun au CES-ENS Cachan et RITM, se déroulera le jeudi 27 mars 2014 de 16h à 17h30, à Cachan. Nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir Cecilia García-Peñalosa (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) qui présentera :
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
avec C. Bosquet et P.P. Combes
Abstract: Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations. Recent work based on experimental evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the promotion system for French academics to look at women’s attitudes towards competition in an actual labour market. Using data for academic economists over the period 1991-2008 we find that, conditional on entering the competition, there is no difference in promotions across the genders, which is difficult to reconcile with either discrimination or a poorer performance of women in contests. In contrast, women have a substantially lower probability than men to enter the promotion contest. Our data does not support that this gap is due to differences in costs or in preferences concerning department prestige, indicating that women are less willing than men to take part in contests.
Lieu du séminaire :
ENS Cachan – Amphithéâtre Condorcet
Bâtiment d’Alembert – 1er étage
61, avenue du président Wilson, Cachan, RER B Station Bagneux.
Le programme du séminaire pour l’année 2013-2014 est ici et le plan d’accès pour vous rendre à l’ENS Cachan est là.
Cordialement,
Les organisateurs
Nathalie Etchart-Vincent
José de Sousa
Thomas Vendryes