ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to …, eliminates differences in ranked compensation tournaments. When the sample is split by career choice, there are no gender …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were …

that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women. …

that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …-specific stereotypes. Like men in Western societies, Palawan men overestimate women’s actual risk aversion. By contrast, Teop men …