How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences …

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 …

Workplace tournaments are one likely contributor to gender differences in labor market outcomes. Relative to men, women … environment that may produce more gender-neutral outcomes: tournaments with safeguards. In our experiments, participants take part … higher wages for the low-ranked. As expected, we find that women are more likely than men to obtain such a safeguard. However …

explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women … downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …