Paper Fellows Buser and Oosterbeek in The Washington Post

The paper by fellows Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek with Muriel Niederle (Stanford University) on gender differences and competition was picked up by the Washington Post on January 2 in its article ‘Why do some studies show women are less competitive than men? The field of experimental economics has become popular in the past decade, and with it has developed the study of gender differences. Women have different attitudes than men toward competition, toward risk, toward altruism, studies show in the article.