We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our …

find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …

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 …

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. …

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 …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …

In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of … equally well as individuals from better performing groups. Our experiment leaves room neither for statistical nor taste …