Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …

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

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …