a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in … line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament … significantly more often when it is team-based but men enter significantly less when they are part of a team rather than alone. The …

a team rather than alone. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in … line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. Women do not enter the tournament … significantly more often when it is team-based but men enter significantly less when they are part of a team rather than alone. The …

also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a … non-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a natural field experiment (n>1 …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

provision in rank-order tournaments. I extend the previous literature to team competitions for male and female teams, as well as …