In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors, where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in … achievement settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9–12 in Colombia and Sweden … competitive in all tasks and all measures in Colombia. Unlike the consistent results in Colombia, the results in Sweden are mixed … gender gap in Sweden. …

This study investigates the extent to which gender differences in choosing to enter competitive tournaments are due to … women's lower taste for competition or differences in confidence. We examine three types of confidence and find that … ability, this measure eliminates gender differences in winner-take-all tournaments and, when entered with risk measures …

preference for competition than gender/family priming. Priming had significantly different effects for males. This contrast …We develop and test experimentally the argument that gender/family and/or professional identities, activated through … priming, influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may conflict and …

A recent literature emphasizes that gender differences in the labor market may in part be driven by a gender gap in … tournament entry decisions publicly observable may further exacerbate the gender gap. We test this prediction using a laboratory … experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We … find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …