We study gender differences in willingness to guess. We present the results of a field experiment where participants … not penalized, there are no gender differences in willingness to guess. However, when there is a penalty for incorrect … explain the gender gap in numerical questions. Also, overconfidence contributes to explaining females’ higher willingness to …

correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and …

differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this … explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women …

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece …-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition …

experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …

experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the … is female. The gender gap in sabotage is persistent. We discuss possible explanations for our findings and their …

Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness 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 …

find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the … losing to women. Our results shed some light on the behavioral changes that lead to differential outcomes when the gender …This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We …

experiment. Our findings shed new light on why women may be less inclined to pursue competition-intensive careers. …In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and … explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …

performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non … administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … average ratings for code quality and problem solving are 12 percent of a standard deviation lower for women than men. Half of …