experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …

(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to … explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment in class-room. While …

terms of gender and immigration status). Similar patterns are obtained for job satisfaction and the match quality of …

of regulation on R&D investment. Nearing competition has a dampening effect on R&D spending, but once the market and … regulatory framework conditions have been established, higher levels of competition positively influence R&D. Our results further … indicate that the relation between competition and innovative investment can be described as inverted U-shaped. Finally, we …

How does demand uncertainty affect entry into skill-based competition? I investigate this question in a market entry … experiment with skill-based payoffs by systematically varying two key elements of the market environment: demand risk and …