such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

and chose between piece-rate and competitive-tournament compensation. Identity priming, moderated by gender, significantly …We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through … psychological priming, may influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …. Depending on the treatment, the variable payment is either a piece rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We elicit … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …

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 …

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 …

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 …

competition. We have two distinct research questions. First, does the gender composition of the group to which a student is …Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … randomly assigned affect competitive choices? Second, does the gender mix of the school a student attends affect competitive …

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …