substantial heterogeneity in preferences, we find that women, on average, have a higher willingness to pay for jobs with greater … attributes are found to play a role in major choice, with women exhibiting greater sensitivity to nonpecuniary job attributes in …

these environments and resulting economic consequences. Using a two-stage laboratory experiment, I analyze the role of … individual who generated the feeling, using a real-effort task. Ultimately, I show that women respond to the negative feelings … more strongly than men. I find that women increase performance when experiencing negative emotions, while male performance …

We study gender differences in willingness to guess. We present the results of a field experiment where participants … not penalized, there are no gender differences in willingness to guess. However, when there is a penalty for incorrect … explain the gender gap in numerical questions. Also, overconfidence contributes to explaining females’ higher willingness to …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …

Using a between-subjects design, this experiment compared the effect of competitive and cooperative work in the lab on …, competition, or group pay, females who chose group pay gave the most in the public good task. Females' choices were more … argue that the link between compensation at work and altruism is higher for women than for men …

Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that men are significantly more willing to compete than women given a binary … to variant overconfidence and preference for competition, and is believed to have a profound impact on the market for … highly‐competitive jobs, where women are underrepresented. In this paper, we develop a new instrument to measure the …

Using an experiment, we test whether men acquire information about investments differently than women. When information … Holt and Laury risk preference task and find that men and women acquire information differently in that setting as well …

-to-forecast experiment. Our results show that gender plays a more prominent role in markets with positive expectation feedback than in …We investigate the effect of gender on the price deviation (bubble) from the fundamental value in a learning …

This paper examines gender differences in optimism about the economy. We measure optimism using Swedish survey data in … men are more optimistic than women; however, men are also more prone to be wrong in their beliefs about the future … economic situation. Furthermore, in sharp economic downturns, the gender differences in optimism disappear. This convergence in …

of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …