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 …

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a …-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender …

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 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 …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …

voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness …Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … 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 …

absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

that of the other traits. Gender differences in competitiveness can explain 5-10 percent of the observed gender differences …

growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …