difference in reaction to competition in any task; boys and girls compete equally. If gender equality matters for competitiveness …. -- competitiveness ; gender differences ; field experiment …Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been …

competitive incentives. The literature suggests that such a male competitive advantage may contribute to observed gender gaps in … labor force pay and achievement. Understanding which factors may be driving these gender differences is essential for … predictions of the model with the empirical evidence from past papers, we reject explanations involving male over-confidence …

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … stereotyping when looking at competitiveness: running, skipping rope, math and word search. We find that boys and girls are equally …

one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other … confidence and suggest that these factors can account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does …We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against …

This study examines whether competitive experience affects gender difference in the economic preference and academic … environment, compared with their male counterparts. Our study suggests that observed gender differences may partially reflect the … effects of schooling environment rather than inherent gender traits …

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 …

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences …

triggers significant gender effects with respect to different dimensions such as competitiveness, performance or partner choice …We examine an explanation for differences of self selection into competitive environments between men and women: gender …-task stereotypes. Via data from a laboratory and a framed field experiment we test a recent model on stereotyping. Therefore, we …