We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …

This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to … ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …, eliminates differences in ranked compensation tournaments. When the sample is split by career choice, there are no gender …

paper, we explore gender differences in strategic sophistication and study whether these differences are endogenous. We … react very strongly to incentives to the extent that gender differences disappear when a monetary prize is awarded. In the … second study, we use a within subject design to analyze how depth of reasoning varies with gender priming and the gender …

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. …

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

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