Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258947 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 03/21
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of gender composition of teams on performance, self-concept, working style, and individual satisfaction in endogenously and exogenously formed teams. We randomly divide a sample of high school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition using random assignment and we allow the students in the other group to form teams freely. We find that students form disproportionately more male-predominant teams that those that would be formed under random assignment and that students in endogenously-formed gender-biased teams prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. Our results also show that female-predominant teams under-perform other types of teams but these differences disappear when teams are endogenously-formed.
Subjects: 
team composition
gender
team formation
team dynamics
team performance
field experiment
decision-making
JEL: 
J16
I21
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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