This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …

There is a growing literature looking at how men and women respond differently to competition. We contribute to this … literature by studying gender differences in performance in a high-stakes and male dominated competitive environment, expert … chess tournaments. Our findings show that women under-perform compared to men of the same ability and that the gender …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that …

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …

This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male-dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …

competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … each period. The gender wage gap contribution of gender differences in competition aversion compared with the contribution …Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in …

television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance - in favour of boys - across episodes of the quiz show. To … of the game. We find that there are no gender gaps when stress is kept to a minimum - that is, in games without fastest …-finger buzzer, knock-outs or penalties. However, in games with these features, there are significant gender gaps. In addition, we …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. -- gender wage gap … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … ; competition ; equal treatment law …