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 …

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

The practical relevance of favouritism among students of the same study path is evident in lifelong memberships in … fraternities or sororities or in high donations to faculties. In our study, we focus on the in-group favouritism of students by … examining the trade-off of acting based on in-group favouritism or a performance signal when decisions are made about whom to …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

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

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 scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

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 …

three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …