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 -