, we run the experiment in two countries, Norway and India, characterised by very different levels of gender inequality. We … subjects condition their behaviour on the gender of their co-player. In order to identify the role of culture and gender norms … find different patterns of gender effects in the two countries. In India, subjects are more 'hawkish' when facing a woman …

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 selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

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 selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that …

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 …

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than …

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

to favor women and find no gender difference under competition per se. We also reject the hypothesis that a .stereotype … gender inequality: namely, that women and men respond differently to time pressure. With reduced time pressure, competition … threat. explains the inability of women to improve performance under competition. We propose an alternative explanation for …

, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings … help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select … into tournaments at a lower rate than men. -- Behavioral preferences ; real effort experiment ; gender differences ; gender …

our interpretation. -- Competition, piece rate ; revenue sharing ; gender-task stereotype ; experiment … comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a different point of view and claim that gender-task stereotypes are … able to explain a large part of the under-representation of women in tournament like environments. We conduct an experiment …

We look at gender differences in preferences for altruism, risk and competition in math and word search among … the gender gap in our sample is not due to competition preferences per se. -- competitiveness ; risk preferences … ; altruism ; adolescents ; gender differences ; experiment …