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借来的羽毛：团队合作中功劳归属的性别差距
Borrowed plumes: the gender gap in claiming credit for teamwork
摘要
Teamwork is prevalent in many forms of production, but individual contributions to team output are often ambiguous. We use a large-scale online experiment with an interactive team task to investigate gender differences in claiming credit for contributions to teamwork with misaligned incentives: Team members have an incentive to exaggerate their contribution, but this harms the other team member. In this setting, we observe that men claim to have contributed more than equally contributing women. Using two further between-subject treatments, we find no evidence that gender differences in altruism or in overconfidence explain the observed gender claim-gap. Further, the gender gap is present only among high contributors, and we show that the gap is particularly pronounced for large claims, which has potentially important consequences for gender equity in labour market outcomes.
中文摘要
团队合作广泛存在于多种生产形式中，但个体对团队产出的贡献往往难以明确界定。我们通过一项大规模在线实验，采用互动式团队任务，研究在激励不一致情况下，个体对团队合作贡献邀功行为中的性别差异：团队成员有动机夸大自己的贡献，但这会损害其他团队成员的利益。在此情境下，我们观察到男性声称的贡献高于贡献程度相同的女性。通过另外两个被试间处理，我们未发现利他主义或过度自信方面的性别差异能够解释所观察到的性别邀功差距。此外，该性别差距仅存在于高贡献者之中，并且我们表明，这一差距在较大贡献声称中尤为显著，这对劳动力市场结果中的性别公平可能具有重要影响。