our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their … manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …

ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced …, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …