Using data from multiple-period math competitions, we show that males outperform females of similar ability during the … 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 …

toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … competition are large and robust, the results are much more mixed and more nuanced concerning altruism or cooperative tendencies …

observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to …

We design a laboratory experiment to investigate bilateral link formation in a setting where payoffs are pair …

household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …

, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent …. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in … the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … datasets show insignificant gender differentials in access to employer-subsidized child care and access to scheduling …