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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383874
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373763
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441727
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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness
Buser, Thomas - 2009
We use fluctuations of female sex hormones occurring naturally over the menstrual cycle or induced by hormonal contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378957
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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Gender, competitiveness and study choices in high school : evidence from Switzerland
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023153
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563051
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532607
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015
through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287487
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210