. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …

We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …

Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …

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 …