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 … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness … emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence. …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

, 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 …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a metaanalysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …

We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …