Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain … the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against … correctly, and (iii) respond correctly in high-stakes situations. Even risk preferences in wagering decisions, where gender …

explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …

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. …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …

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 …

environments. In particular, men are more willing than women to compete. We investigate whether it is possible to reduce the gender … about the potential earnings implications. We find that this simple information intervention reduced the gender gap, both in …

-wide annual income data from 1960 to 2021 in Sweden. First, I document the contemporary child penalties across several labor … since the 1980s, particularly pronounced among men in more gender-egalitarian households (proxied by the father's share of …

is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …