explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these …We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women … downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …

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 … settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …

inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional …

How do men and women dier in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this … question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due … to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the prior …

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle … this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is … unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a significant decrease in subsequent tournament entry. However, when the …

This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male …

Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the … for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker … first dimension and investigate gender differences in the preference for status ranking. Participants perform a task under …

conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition …