. The experiment was conducted in a shopping mall with 885 adults with wide demographic variation. We replicate the gender …, using an experiment where participants can choose between piece rate and tournament compensation for simple addition tasks … performance does not affect the overall gender gap, but does affect the choices to compete by gender and ability. When feedback is …

Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of …

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 …

contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against …Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however …, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may …

This paper analyzes gender differences in access to competitive positions. We implement an experiment where workers can … apply for a job promotion by sending a signal to their employer. We control for gender differences in anticipation of … where workers cannot send signals. We find that gender disparity among promoted workers is highest when workers can apply …

one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other …We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against … oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found when competing against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and …

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 …

gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … Daily Double wagering decisions. We identify no noticeable gender differences in our competitive measures throughout all … three samples, but this result changes when considering risk-taking. Although we identify no gender differences in wagering …

experiments on gender differences in competition may have measured a lower bound of differences between men and women … uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We … present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but where the number of winners is either uncertain …