There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in … preferences in examination behavior. Students have the possibility of attaining a seminar bonus on the final exam for near … initial quizzes can either be accepted as is, or students can attempt to improve their marks by answering similar quiz …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …

competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We … 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. …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness … emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence. …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness … emerge very early in life. The gap is robust to controlling for gender differences in risk attitudes and overconfidence. …