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 …, obtaining a safeguard comes at a cost. On average, the safeguard causes lower performance, creates a gender wage gap, and over …

differences in performance in the real effort task, we observe a strong gender gap in sabotage choices in our experiment. This gap …We study gender differences in relation to performance and sabotage in competitions. While we find no systematic gender … beliefs are exogenously aligned by implementing sabotage via strategy method, the gender gap in sabotage choices disappears …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …

elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a … increases girls' interest in STEM and decreases the gender gap via an increase in STEM confidence. Our findings suggest that an … easy-to-implement digital intervention has the potential to foster gender equality for young children and can potentially …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … 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 …

competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon … precise mechanisms behind the gender difference in competitive responsiveness are still not fully uncovered. In this paper, we …

We study whether female students benefit from being taught by female professors, and whether such gender match effects … 2006 and 2018. We find that gender match effects on student performance are sizable in smaller classes, but do not exist in … for the emergence of gender match effects. Instead, the mere fact that one's professor is female is not sufficient to …