I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …

decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects – if any … – depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender …-directionally along an undirected line (from peers to the worker and from the worker to peers). We identify strong gender differences in …

norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …

We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather …

's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …