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#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development

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The Effect of Competition on Women's Performance

In economics, there are now probably over 100 publications that show that women are less competitive than men. So it seems like men thoroughly enjoy competition, competition breaks out the best in men, for women, I haven't seen results that show the same effect. If this is what's going on, behind even our conscious decision, if this is really one of the drivers of human behavior, then women should be especially sensitive to all those incentives that directly link to the benefit of their children.

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