differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the …

laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …

lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece … effect is also present for high performers. In an additional experiment, I show that giving feedback to non-competers might …

experiment, we show that men are more likely than women to start and keep competing after receiving positive feedback. In a third … experiment, we show that the gender difference in the reaction to losing is not present when winning and losing are random rather … than the outcome of competition. The fact that women are more likely to give up competing after a setback may help to …

our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …