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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the disposition effect in an experiment based on Weber and Camerer (1998 …

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

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

-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions …

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. …

We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender …