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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532607
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015
explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287487
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The impact of stress on tournament entry
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 20 (2017) 2, pp. 506-530
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781627
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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Time pressure preferences
Buser, Thomas; Veldhuizen, Roel van; Zhong, Yang - 2022
Many professional and educational settings require individuals to be willing and able to perform under time pressure. We use a lab experiment to elicit preferences for working under time pressure in an incentivized way by eliciting the minimum additional payment participants require to complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348377
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Stress Reactions cannot explain the Gender Gap in Willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288405
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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441727
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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence
Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523572
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 12, pp. 3439-3449
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626358
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563051