This paper studies sabotage in a contest with non-identical players. Unlike previous papers, we consider sabotage in an … elimination contest and allow contestants to sabotage a potential or future rival. It turns out that for a certain partition of … players there is a pure-strategy equilibrium in which only the most able contestant engages in sabotage while less able …

without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …

This paper reviews the relatively small literature on sabotage in contests. It looks at both the formal game …

which individuals participate in a real-effort tournament and can sabotage each other. We find that AA does not necessarily … after the introduction of the AA policy. Additionally, we observe less sabotage under AA when the tournament started … directly with the AA regime. The removal of AA policies, however, significantly intensifies sabotage. Finally, there are no …

We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap … is rooted in the uncertainty about the opponent's sabotage: in the absence of information about the opponent's sabotage …