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 …

measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction … 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. We use two field …

experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study … women in STEM. We finally propose an easy-to-implement policy intervention to close the gender gap in STEM students when …The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits …

This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 … information. The analysis of the competing mental models that women hold reveals that the likely mechanism is the perceived … suggests that they view negotiating women as facing worse consequences in the workplace than negotiating men. …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the … based on her high school success. The results show that, controlling for starting points, women perform worse than men in … the entrance exam and are less likely to gain entry. Women also omit more items in the exam. Using the Rasch Model to …

the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against …Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain … correctly, and (iii) respond correctly in high-stakes situations. Even risk preferences in wagering decisions, where gender …

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 …

competitive incentives in mixed-gender competition. We use a real effort math task to induce an implicit stereotype threat against …The gender gap in income and leadership positions in many domains of our society is an undisputed pervasive phenomenon …. One explanation for the disadvantaged position of women put forward in the economic and psychology literature is the …