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 …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece …-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …

experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …

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 …

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …

piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

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