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 … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …

This paper employs an online real-effort experiment to investigate gender disparities in the selection of individuals … of gender gap trends in competition entry rates, particularly as women increasingly embrace generative AI tools … of AI assistance. Surprisingly, the introduction of AI eliminates an 11-percentage-point gender gap, between men and …

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

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

students. While ability alone increases confidence and decreases overconfidence, the interaction effect of feminine gender and … ones, while the positive effect of ability on confidence is smaller for females. That being said, the negative gender gap … quartiles. Also, the positive gender gap in confidence for girls is smaller for well-performing students than underperforming …

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 …

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 …