such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …

academia have been partially explained by “competitive pressures”, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women’s cheating behavior is entirely due to …

-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer … effects in the piece-rate pay scheme. In contrast, in the tournament scheme we find some evidence of positive peer effects … since the underdogs almost never quit the competition even when lagging significantly behind, and frontrunners do not slack …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory …

effects vary according to gender: they are large for men but not statistically different from zero for women. …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups …