We examine gender differences in competitiveness, using a TV game show where the winner of an elimination competition … plays a game of chance worth hundreds of thousands of euros. At several stages of the competition, contestants face a choice … entirely from women avoiding competition against men. When the decision to compete is strategic and contestants should factor …

make more risky decisions in the new environment. We attribute our findings to gender differences in competitiveness and …

inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the …

make more risky decisions in the new environment. We attribute our findings to gender differences in competitiveness and …

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 …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favourable 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 …