Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … environment that may produce more gender-neutral outcomes: tournaments with safeguards. In our experiments, participants take part … in a tournament with a real effort task and choose whether they want to have a complimentary safeguard that guarantees …

We analyze how the gender composition of teams affects team interactions. In an online experiment, we randomly assign … individuals to gender-homogenous or gender-mixed teams. Teams meet in an audio chat room and jointly work on a gender-neutral team … more than all-female teams and outperform teams of both alternative gender compositions. In mixed teams, males strongly …

, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications … for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …

specialization can reflect an efficient response to the competitiveness of the labor market and may arise even when all workers have … equal opportunities to succeed in the labor market …

policies, flexible work arrangements, and gender equality …

reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third … less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a …

-effort experiment, we examine how cheating and effort evolve in two rounds of competitions in which subjects compete with different …

Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … environment that may produce more gender-neutral outcomes: tournaments with safeguards. In our experiments, participants take part … in a tournament with a real effort task and choose whether they want to have a complimentary safeguard that guarantees …