help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single … superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately, we collect and explore data from four sources: men's and women … replication of Brown's (2011) study. Empirically, we find little robust evidence of the superstar effect in any of our datasets …