Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded … ? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap : (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …

We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden …

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate … effects vary according to gender : they are large for men but not statistically different from zero for women. …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … the provision of incentives and their sorting effect. …

Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort … extrinsic incentives by the availability of non-monetary incentives. …

links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for … workers. These two assumptions yield numerous theoretical predictions pertaining to gender wage gaps. These predictions are … discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …

off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …