such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we … collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in … ; menstrual cycle ; gender ; likelihood of conception ; first price auction ; risk behavior ; competition ; bidding …

with salivary progesterone when controlling for gender, the use of hormonal contraceptives, and demographics. This also … ; Gender ; Competition ; Aggression ; Dominance ; Risk-taking ; Endocrinological economics …