differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from …

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

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than … against women, but compete against women who are thought to compete. The behavior of men seems primarily to be influenced by …

into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …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 …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …