interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment …Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women …

interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- Competition ; gender gap ; experiment …Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment ; children ; teenagers …We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …

. -- Competition ; gender gap ; experiment ; children ; teenagers …We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers … here. This gender gap is observed already with three-year olds, indicating that gender differences in competitiveness …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …