explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and …Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

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 … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender …

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 …

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 …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

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

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 …

We analyze gender differences in the trust game in a behind the veil of ignorance design. This method yields strategies …