observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … preferences yield differences in naturally-occurring labor market outcomes remains an open issue. We address this question by … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into …

similar numbers otherwise. In a separate survey experiment, gender-neutral language in ads increases interest and beliefs …Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in … partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language …

differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …

absence of a common shock, using optimal independent contracts dominates using the optimal tournament. Conversely, if the … distribution of the common shock is sufficiently diffuse, using the optimal tournament dominates using optimal independent … but uses the optimal tournament, does as well as one who can observe the shock and uses independent contracts …

We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the …

We argue that inter-jurisdictional competition in a regionally decentralized authoritarian regime distorts local … politicians' incentives in resource allocation among firms from their own city and a competing city. We develop a tournament model … presence of regional spillover and the incentive for political competition leads to biased resource allocations against the …

significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no …Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than … experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields and ages were invited to join a product development opportunity …

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …