comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … women self-select significantly less into competition against men only in the quantitative task. This finding suggests that … remaining gender differences for entry into competition are driven by gender-task stereotypes. As a robustness check, we explore …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

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 …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …