TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender mix and team performance
T2 - Differences between exogenously and endogenously formed teams
AU - Zaccagni, Sarah
AU - Fenoll, Ainoa Aparicio
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study how the self-selection of individuals into teams changes the impact of a team’s gender composition on gender preferences, team performance, and individual performance. We randomly divide a sample of high-performing high school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition, and we allow the students in the other group to form teams freely. We find that the latter choose more male-predominant teams than the former, and if self-selected into gender-biased teams, students prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. We also find that female-predominant teams underperform other types of teams when we form teams exogenously, but these differences disappear when students form teams endogenously.
AB - We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study how the self-selection of individuals into teams changes the impact of a team’s gender composition on gender preferences, team performance, and individual performance. We randomly divide a sample of high-performing high school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition, and we allow the students in the other group to form teams freely. We find that the latter choose more male-predominant teams than the former, and if self-selected into gender-biased teams, students prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. We also find that female-predominant teams underperform other types of teams when we form teams exogenously, but these differences disappear when students form teams endogenously.
U2 - 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102269
DO - 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102269
M3 - Journal article
VL - 79
JO - Labour Economics
JF - Labour Economics
SN - 0927-5371
M1 - 102269
ER -