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Women are less likely than men to enter into competitions and this difference has been argued to be partly rooted in cultural differences. Using a large sample of Norwegian second-generation immigrants we will test the effect of culture using the epidemiological approach.
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Citation
Hauge, Karen, Andreas Kotsadam and Anine Riege. 2019. "Culture and Gender Differences in Competition." AEA RCT Registry. April 29. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4153-1.0.
Competition experiment a la Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) with second generation immigrants in Norway
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Computer
Randomization Unit
Individuals
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes
Sample size: planned number of clusters
59 country backgrounds
Sample size: planned number of observations
2360 individuals
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
40
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
With a p-value of 0.05 and 80 percent power we have a minimum detectable effect (MDE) of a 4 percentage points difference across cultures from a one standard deviation in our culture proxy.