Men are known to have a higher taste for competition than women. This paper presents an experiment that analyses the different determinants of the choice to enter a competition: beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the competition is concerned, low-performing subjects adapt...

What makes the members of a team cooperate is a question essential to labor economists and is all the more important when teams are competing against each others. In this case, having some team members free-ride weakens the team?s chances of winning. A recent literature shows that men and women...

Public economics proposed various models that intend to determine the optimal provision of public goods based on individual preferences. To provide decision makers with empirical recommendations, economists thus need to elicit individual preferences, and more precisely the marginal rate of...