self-selection into competition for women, but not for men. Overall, we find tentative evidence for gender differences in … individual and gender differences in competitiveness. We measure individuals' autonomic nervous system activity in a resting …. We find that basal heart rate variability, a proxy for chronic stress, and acute competition-induced changes in heart …

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 …

-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …-sectional data. The study finds it for fathers and mothers, babies in the womb and recently born children, and for a West European …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the … parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two aspects of working life that may influence how parents divide care …, stable characteristics. Gender egalitarianism and greater possibilities for women in terms of career and wages are put …

We conducted a controlled experiment to study how different gender frames used in the instructions affect economic … behavior. In our experiment, we systematically varied the framing of the instructions, either using the male, the female, or a … gender-inclusive form. Participants played three standard economic two-player games measuring prosocial behavior. In …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …

this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …