’s substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities …This paper addresses the behavioral puzzle of women’s preference for competition when competitors are also women. Using … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments … presented here show that even though women are less willing than men to compete against others, they are just as willing as men …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … environment that may produce more gender-neutral outcomes: tournaments with safeguards. In our experiments, participants take part … higher wages for the low-ranked. As expected, we find that women are more likely than men to obtain such a safeguard. However …

explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women … downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

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 … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …