This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament....

This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and siignificant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament....

Recent results in experimental and personnel economics indicate that women do not like competitive environments as much as men. This paper presents an experimental design that gives participants the opportunity to enter a tournament as part of a team rather than alone. Although a large and...