This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general … focus on gender differences in work preferences in relation to job satisfaction, risk aversion and self employment, and …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …

differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …

paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …