In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … on females' choice of the tournament wage scheme, and (b) negatively associated with behindness aversion and positively … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional …

contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against …Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however …, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may …

gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … Daily Double wagering decisions. We identify no noticeable gender differences in our competitive measures throughout all … three samples, but this result changes when considering risk-taking. Although we identify no gender differences in wagering …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences …

that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors … studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the …

This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the …

We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to enter a tournament than girls across the whole age spectrum considered … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …