This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …

We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In … ? {0,3x}. In the ability condition, c depends on B’s performance in a mathematical test, with c = 5/3/1 for above average …/average/below average performance. We examine the influences of gender on economic decisions. We find that gender has a strong effect in the …

We examine gender differences in trust in another party?s cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject?s ability is …

This note shows that when the designer of a contest wishes the winner have high ability, she is better off giving a … designer should give a head start to the one who is more likely to have high ability. …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the … gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co …