. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, the results from our experiment imply that the whole gender gap is driven by …

environments. In particular, men are more willing than women to compete. We investigate whether it is possible to reduce the gender … about the potential earnings implications. We find that this simple information intervention reduced the gender gap, both in …

. While part of this effect may be explained by gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence, previous studies have … attributed the majority of the gender gap to gender differences in a separate 'competitiveness' trait. We re-examine this result … experimental design. In contrast to the literature, our results imply that the whole gender gap is driven by risk attitudes and …