The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments …. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze …

competition. If value is redistributed, the reduction in information rent outweighs the loss in competitiveness, making … more recognisable, reducing their information rent, which in turn increases effort. However, higher inequality reduces …

manipulate their preference as well as their network connection to avoid competition or congestion; while the mechanism designer … wants to elicit the agents' private information about both preferences and network connections. As a benchmark for an …

; intensity of competition ; experiment …We argue that, in a simple setting, the relation between the intensity of competition and cost-reducing investment is U … is minimal for intermediate levels of competition, which is inversely parameterized by the extent of product …

to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype … threat. explains the inability of women to improve performance under competition. We propose an alternative explanation for … gender inequality: namely, that women and men respond differently to time pressure. With reduced time pressure, competition …