economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders …

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …

volume and price volatility. We also find an unexpected gender effect in team composition, manifesting itself in more extreme …

abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …