’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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

How do men and women dier 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 prior …

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 …

This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male …