of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

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 …

, competition, or group pay, females who chose group pay gave the most in the public good task. Females' choices were more …

to variant overconfidence and preference for competition, and is believed to have a profound impact on the market for …

remains unaffected. Remarkably, there is no gender gap in tournament performance when there are negative emotions …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experimental gender literature suggests several plausible behavioral explanations behind these differences, relating to gender … gender difference in average chosen tax rates in the performance conditions. We find that this gender difference is mainly …