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 …

-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 …

-wide annual income data from 1960 to 2021 in Sweden. First, I document the contemporary child penalties across several labor … since the 1980s, particularly pronounced among men in more gender-egalitarian households (proxied by the father's share of …

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 …

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 …