. 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 …

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 …

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 …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. … willingness to enter competition with uncertainty and ambiguity, but men react slightly more than women. Overall, both effects …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. … willingness to enter competition with uncertainty and ambiguity, but men react slightly more than women. Overall, both effects …

. 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 …

social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …