work environments. We examine the relationship between, and the driving forces behind, individual overconfidence and … voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

We investigate whether peer effects at work differ by gender and whether the gender difference in peer effects if any … depends on work organization, precisely the structure of social networks. We develop a social network model with gender … heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is … related to incentives. We can show that the sex di fference in the willingness to enter a competition is mediated by … those women who do not choose competitive incentives "know" that they should not. …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … where an individual competes against a target based on the previous performance of one anonymised person of unknown gender …