This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … on more than 40,000 individual attempts from international freediving competitions, we provide evidence that women, on … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to … explain recent findings that women shy away from competition, demanding jobs and wage negotiations, as entering these … situations shows a certain confidence of one's ability. …

stress responses and the decision to enter a competition or not, these cannot explain the general gender gap in willingness … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

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

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 …

overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that … their colleagues, and we find that overconfidence can be either self-serving or self-defeating for the overconfident worker. …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications … for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …