Dato, Simon; Nieken, Petra - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 100 (2014) C, pp. 64-80
We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent's output, we find that males and … more sabotage, leading to an, on average, higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the …