We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …

find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … choosing whom to hire, they receive information about the past scores of pairs, not of individuals. We vary the observability …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …