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 …

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … large number of experimental studies that show that women are more likely than men to shy away from competition. We also …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …

contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however …

these environments and resulting economic consequences. Using a two-stage laboratory experiment, I analyze the role of … individual who generated the feeling, using a real-effort task. Ultimately, I show that women respond to the negative feelings … more strongly than men. I find that women increase performance when experiencing negative emotions, while male performance …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …