Men are known to have a higher taste for competition than women. This paper presents an experiment that analyses the different determinants of the choice to enter a competition : beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the competition is concerned, low-performing subjects adapt...

This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament....

What makes the members of a team cooperate is a question essential to labor economists and is all the more important when teams are competing against each others. In this case, having some team members free-ride weakens the team?s chances of winning. A recent literature shows that men and women...