There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors, where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in … this is related to incentives. We can show that the sex difference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do … image concerns. If such image concerns are important, we should expect public observability to further exacerbate the gender …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to … that management should make tournament conditions transparent and information available in order to prevent gender …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …