We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find … self-select into competition in the verbal task, but boys are significantly more likely to choose to compete in math …, indicating that some of the gender gap in our sample is not due to preferences for competition per se …

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in … competition. We also find that stress decreases willingness to compete overall, and for women, this is related to performance …. These results help to explain previous findings on gender differences in performance under competition both in and out of …

We investigate the impact of behavioral ordering on profits under competition. Specifically, we use controlled … from optimal order quantities result in small expected profit losses. Under competition, we find that human decision …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

. -- competition ; gender gap ; experiment ; children ; teenagers …