论文标题
使用社会认可来解决低启发性任务的志愿服务的性别差异
Using social recognition to address the gender difference in volunteering for low-promotability tasks
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论文摘要
研究表明，女性为人们更喜欢他人完成的任务而自愿更多。由于其本质，此类任务几乎没有货币激励措施。我们使用志愿者的困境游戏的修改版本来检查非货币干预措施（尤其是社会认可）是否可以使用来改变与此类任务相关的性别规范。我们设计了三种治疗方法，a）a）志愿者获得积极的社会认可，b）非志愿者获得了负面的社会认可，c）志愿者获得了积极的态度，但非志愿者会得到负面的社会认可。我们的结果表明，社会认可的竞争增加了一个小组中某人自愿参加的总体可能性。积极的社会认可缩小了基线治疗中观察到的性别差距，正面和负面的社会认可的结合也是如此。我们的结果与先前关于竞争性别差异的文献一致，这表明公众对志愿服务的认可可以改变组织中的默认性别规范，并同时提高效率。
Research shows that women volunteer significantly more for tasks that people prefer others to complete. Such tasks carry little monetary incentives because of their very nature. We use a modified version of the volunteer's dilemma game to examine if non-monetary interventions, particularly, social recognition can be used to change the gender norms associated with such tasks. We design three treatments, where a) a volunteer receives positive social recognition, b) a non-volunteer receives negative social recognition, and c) a volunteer receives positive, but a non-volunteer receives negative social recognition. Our results indicate that competition for social recognition increases the overall likelihood that someone in a group has volunteered. Positive social recognition closes the gender gap observed in the baseline treatment, so does the combination of positive and negative social recognition. Our results, consistent with the prior literature on gender differences in competition, suggest that public recognition of volunteering can change the default gender norms in organizations and increase efficiency at the same time.
