. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. -- personnel economics ; sorting ; incentives …

We examine an explanation for differences of self selection into competitive environments between men and women: gender … associated with gender. An indirect test ensures that our quantitative and our sports task are stereotypically male, while for … the verbal task concerning gender performance are absent. Controlling for potential confounds, we find that women self …

prominent gender differences, i.e., disparities in dictator giving and risk taking. In a within-subjects experiment, we test the … help explaining common gender differences in charitable giving …

ten years worth of experimental data from two countries exploring the existence and endogeneity of gender differences in … classroom and one from the laboratory. We observe robust and significant gender differences in strategic sophistication in … of strategic reasoning varies with gender priming. Females display significantly higher levels of strategic …

We test two hypotheses, based on sexual selection theory, about gender differences in costly social interactions …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

paper, we explore gender differences in strategic sophistication and study whether these differences are endogenous. We … react very strongly to incentives to the extent that gender differences disappear when a monetary prize is awarded. In the … second study, we use a within subject design to analyze how depth of reasoning varies with gender priming and the gender …

first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under … being personal) and whether the ranking will be done by a man or a woman. We find no gender difference in mean status …-ranking aversion when the ranking is personal. When the ranking is imposed, there are still no gender differences in the preferences …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …