's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities …This paper addresses the behavioral puzzle of women's preference for competition when competitors are also women. Using … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …

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

, we run the experiment in two countries, Norway and India, characterised by very different levels of gender inequality. We … subjects condition their behaviour on the gender of their co-player. In order to identify the role of culture and gender norms … find different patterns of gender effects in the two countries. In India, subjects are more 'hawkish' when facing a woman …

explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …We analyze how subjects’ self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women … downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

outcomes, which is consistent with social image concerns. The second experiment shows that dishonest individuals prefer to …

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 … the competitiveness difference between men and women declines significantly when individuals are given performance …

performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non … administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … average ratings for code quality and problem solving are 12 percent of a standard deviation lower for women than men. Half of …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … 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 …

explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women … downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we … find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among women of any age since 1997. For non-OECD-Europe, we find …