. Key factors explaining gender patterns in attraction to co-operative incentives across experimental conditions include …

, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of … women and thus result in reverse discrimination towards men. Interestingly this need not be the outcome when competitive …

This study uses a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive … providing insights into the underpinnings of the factors hypothesized to be determinants of the observed gender differences in …

of which will be chosen for payment). Although there are no gender differences in performance, or beliefs about relative … performance, men choose the hard task about 50 percent more frequently than women, independent of performance level. Gender … differences in preferences for characteristics of the tasks cannot account for this gender gap. When we allow for a flexible …

explain it. Using a laboratory computer task, we test the validity of these predictions by breaking down this approach into …