they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

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

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 … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …

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 … be gender neutral. After controlling for differences in performance, risk attitudes, and overconfidence, we find that …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … gender gap in tournament entry. …

settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …