experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …

competition and positively affected by knowledge spillovers. We find that the positive spillovers dominate if foreign firms enter …

conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that … in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff … gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …

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 …

power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … insurance markets. Insurer competition eliminates profits but not the loss size to uninsured consumers. This provides an …

correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a …