We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … opponent is revealed before the tournament, males increase their performance in the real effort task especially if the opponent …

schemes: piece rate and a winner-take-all tournament. We introduce social incentives by informing individuals that 50% of … social incentives, women increase their performance by approximately 23% and 27% in the piece rate and tournament payment …