This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … gender gap in tournament entry. …

Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …

The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments …