’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 …

We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition … entirely from women avoiding competition against men. When the decision to compete is strategic and contestants should factor … plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice …

Violence against women is acknowledged globally as a fundamental human rights violation. Gender-Based Violence [GBV] is … provisions, lost income, and decreased productivity, including adverse consequences on future human capital formation for women …

online experiment, we investigate how the producer's gender influences consumers' willingness to pay for the wine. Gender can …The wine industry, considered to be male-dominated, has seen a growing share of women winemakers. Using a randomized …

leaders. This gender difference could be explained by the willingness to lead; therefore, the number of votes for women …

substantial heterogeneity in preferences, we find that women, on average, have a higher willingness to pay for jobs with greater … attributes are found to play a role in major choice, with women exhibiting greater sensitivity to nonpecuniary job attributes in …

We study gender differences in willingness to guess. We present the results of a field experiment where participants … not penalized, there are no gender differences in willingness to guess. However, when there is a penalty for incorrect … explain the gender gap in numerical questions. Also, overconfidence contributes to explaining females’ higher willingness to …

Farmers' preferences for sustainability certification are analyzed, building on a choice experiment conducted with … upgrading. Gender-disaggregated data reveal that female farmers have a higher preference for sustainability certification than …

has commonly been attributed to a gender difference in preference for performing in a competition is instead explained by … men being more confident than women in their probability of winning a future (though not necessarily a past) competition … apply our methods to examine gender differences in preference for winner-take-all compensation schemes. We find that what …