Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been … competitive behavior. A related field experiment on Israeli children shows that only boys react to competition by running faster … difference in reaction to competition in any task; boys and girls compete equally. If gender equality matters for competitiveness …

competitive incentives. The literature suggests that such a male competitive advantage may contribute to observed gender gaps in … labor force pay and achievement. Understanding which factors may be driving these gender differences is essential for … performance patterns: (i) males are better than females at handling competitive pressure, and (ii) males enjoy competition more or …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden …

We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se … that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive …

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

This study examines whether competitive experience affects gender difference in the economic preference and academic … environment, compared with their male counterparts. Our study suggests that observed gender differences may partially reflect the … effects of schooling environment rather than inherent gender traits …

evidenced by their greater tendency to compete against women. The findings shed new light on the persistent gender gap at the …We examine gender differences in willingness to compete for high stakes. When strategic considerations are absent, we … observe the well-known pattern that women are less likely to compete than men, but this difference derives entirely from women …

Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate … competition. We also find that stress decreases willingness to compete overall, and for women, this is related to performance …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences …