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...

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...